Sticky Light

Researchers at MIT have recently made some very interesting discoveries related to light. When passed through a dense cloud of ultracold rubidium atoms, photons stick together into pairs and triplets.

3 photons combining to produce structure

The structures formed have mass, and are therefore slowed down a lot, moving 100 000 times slower than ordinary light.

What has been observed appears therefore to confirm Halton Arp's hypothesis that matter is a product of "condensed" light.

Furthermore, the experiment fits well with the two orb model of photons described in my Velcro Theory of Physics. In that theory, photons naturally interact, latching onto each other to produce magnetic force. This provides a mechanism for stronger interactions to also occur.

3 positive and 3 negative particle quanta combining to form a photon

What I also found interesting was the way the slow down of light inside the rudidium cloud was explained. The description used matches closely the slalom model used in the Velcro Theory to explain slow down and refraction of light in transparent media.

Red and blue photons slaloming through a sheet of glass and a prism

Again, it seems that the Velcro Theory fits well with observed facts.