David LaPoint's Primer Fields

David LaPoint made a series of three videos on his theory of physics, which he put out on YouTube for everyone to watch.

The videos are well worth watching. They are fine examples of systematic thinking related to electromagnetism and optics.

However, there is an inconsistency in David LaPoint's thinking related to the photon.

To explain the double slit experiment without the use of an aether, David LaPoint makes the red photon bigger than the blue photon. In this way, the wide interference pattern observed for red light can be explained as a function of photon size. The larger the photon, the wider the pattern.

Setup for double slit experiment

The problem with this is that it does not account for the fact that particles larger than photons make increasingly tight patters as they get larger. Electrons make tighter patterns than photons, atoms make tighter patterns than electrons, and molecules make tighter patterns still. Why then expect big photons to make wider patterns than small ones?

Furthermore, the decision to make the red photon larger than the blue one, makes it impossible to explain why blue light refracts more than red light through a prism. David LaPoint makes no explanation for the difference in refraction in his video. He makes an animation and presents it as truth. That's all he does, and also the only thing that he can do, because there is no sensible way to explain the difference in refraction with his big red photon and small blue photon.

Big photons take more time than small photons to pass through the refraction region between air and glass. It must therefore be the big photons that refract the most.

Blue photons refracts more than red photons

In his effort to bypass the aether as part of his explanation, David LaPoint ends up in an impossible situation where his photons can either explain the double slit experiment, or explain the prism, but not both.

Models that include an aether and have red photons smaller than blue photons avoid this problem. Refraction through a prism becomes a logical consequence of relative size between photons, and refraction through the double slit becomes an equally logical consequence of particle size relative to the aether.