Sticky Light

A recent discovery at MIT further supports the idea that photons may be dielectric, and capable of a phase shift into massive matter.

Researchers found that photons can stick together into pairs and triplets when passed through a cloud of ultracold rubidium atoms.

The structures formed had mass, and were therefore slowed down a lot. They moved at a speed 100,000 times slower than ordinary light.

The light appears to have gone through a phase shift, similar to that observed for electron-positron pair production. However, in this case, we got the additional effect of photons latching onto each other to create structure.

Quasi-stable matter produced from light

Light was, as it were, condensed into matter.

This discovery, made known to me several months after I wrote The Velcro Universe, fits my theory remarkably well.

The discovery that photons can be made to stick together goes a long way towards proving that photons are dielectric. After all, it is in the nature of dielectric matter to interact and form structures.