Light and its strange properties
In the macroscopic world we can observe how everything that has been set in motion, without the influence of extreme forces, slows down until it finally comes to a standstill. Let us roll e.g. a ball along a path. It becomes slower and slower until it comes to a standstill. The same applies to a bullet in the air, to an unpowered vehicle on a road, etc. It can also be observed that a bullet fired at a gel, for example, is first slowed down by air resistance and then penetrates the gel, thereby slowing down significantly and slowing down even more due to the greater frictional resistance of the gel. If the bullet manages to penetrate the gel, its exit speed will be many times smaller than the initial speed when it was fired.
Light, on the other hand, behaves completely differently here. Although the speed of light can be influenced by different media, its speed within a medium remains constant and does not decrease.
If you guide a light beam into an optical fiber, the speed of light decreases, but it remains constant within the optical fiber. If this light beam emerges from the optical fiber and continues to fly in the air, its speed increases (!) suddenly (!) and also remains constant again. If this light beam then enters water, its speed is reduced to approx. 160 million m/s. But when it emerges from the water back into the air, its speed increases again (!) and remains the same speed each time within the respective medium, although there is obviously no force that causes everything.
In addition, light cannot be influenced by anything, except for a gravitational force or a space-time curvature (radio waves can be influenced by electric and magnetic fields, but light does not show any interaction). Furthermore, light is both a wave and a particle. In contrast to water waves, which need water to propagate, light can propagate without a corresponding medium (also in empty space - in any space - in a vacuum).
However, all of these strange common properties of light can be reduced to one common denominator. Below is an idea that allows us to attribute the strange behavior of light to the fact that it is not an electromagnetic wave and does not consist of particles (photons). Although there is the wave-particle dualism of light. However this is not a property of light, but a property of the substance of the world (the space-time - the respective hyperspace).
Light has no speed
When we talk about the speed of light, we are not talking about the speed of propagation from the front of a light beam or the speed of flight of a photon.
The speed of light is nothing other than the opening speed of the zipper of space-time (i.e. of the respective hyperspace, which is determined by its structure or substance).
The hyperspace-light equivalence problem
A photon (or subsequently the front of a light beam) enters the world exactly where the zipper closure mechanism tears open space-time (the respective hyperspace) step by step. The light that exists behind it can therefore come into the world step by step (i.e. quantized) from the substance of the outside of the world. A photon drips into the world, so to speak, whenever the tearing mechanism has opened space-time a further step. If our world were two-dimensional, this drop of light would appear to us as a glowing surface if we could look at it from above. At the same time, we would see mountains and valleys that would curve our two-dimensional world and thus appear as waves. In our three-dimensional world, the light particle is nothing more than a three-dimensional drop of light that drips into our world from a higher dimension through the zipper of space-time and thus appears spherical from every side within our world. At the same time, light waves arise around this ball of light, which are nothing other than the oscillating space-time around the hole in hyperspace where the photon has just dropped in (like a stone thrown into water - with the only difference that the stone comes out of our three-dimensional world, while the light comes from a higher dimension). So if we measure the speed of light, then this speed only depends on what material or structure the space-time (the respective hyperspace) is made of. It cannot be distinguished whether a photon was measured that just penetrated (dropped into) the world from the substance of the outside of the world, or whether a hole was measured in hyperspace that was created by the tearing mechanism of space-time that just made room for one Photon created.
Examples:
If you unzip the vacuum space-time, the unzipping speed is 2.99792458 x 10^8 m/s (speed of light in vacuum).
If you rip open the zipper of water space-time, the tearing speed is approx. 1.6 x 10^8 m/s (speed of light in water).
This means that every zipper in space-time (hyperspace) is always exactly the resistance that determines the penetration speed of light.
This view easily explains why light travels at a constant speed within a medium without slowing down: The rip up speed does not change as long as no external force acts.
At the same time, this view also easily explains why light can not only become slower but also faster when it exits into another medium: The resistance to the rip up speed of an air hyperspace is lower than that of an optical fiber hyperspace or a water hyperspace.
Examples:
Light that passes from an optical fiber into water becomes (abruptly) slower because the resistance of the water hyperspace is greater than that of the optical fiber hyperspace.
Light that passes from an optical fiber into air becomes (abruptly) faster because the resistance of the air hyperspace is smaller than that of the optical fiber hyperspace.
Light is created by displacement of hyperspace
It is not electrons that emit light. Electrons merely ensure an alternating displacement of the hyperspace, which is thereby set into oscillation and allows the light existing “behind” to pass through from “inside”.
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