Abstract

I will discuss a real imaginary photon model that has a constant energy content with its rotating elementary charges e⁺ and e^- around a common center and moving with a constant speed as a particle, wavelike through empty space. This leads to an indication that there is a difference between the electromagnetic oscillation of dipoles radiating in all direction and the single-direction rotation of the forward moving electrical potential difference of the photon, as photovoltaic and photoconductive detetcters indicate, since they can detect no wavelengths larger then 42 µm (GeZn detector). Furthermore, this photon model explains why gravitational waves, accelerating galaxies as the source of red shifts, and the universal equation E = mc² are not possible if this model is found to be true. Here it is also explained why the rotating and forward moving charges have no magnetic field. Finally, it is shown that at a beam splitter a photon is either reflected or transmitted and why interference still occurs in an inteferometer in so-called single-photon experiments.

© 1992 Optical Society of America