Chapter 6: Resolving the Wave-Particle Duality of Photons and Questioning Quantum Mechanics

[@ChrisTheBrain]

PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING: I have a running list of corrections and clarifications in the descripition. There is just no way for us to make videos this long and complicated without having a few mistakes slip through. I also never know what is going to stump/bother people the most, so that's why I always do a follow-up. As usual, the vast majority of you have been encouraging and/or constructive in your critiques, it is valued and appreciated!

[@FractalWoman]

Chris. Ok. Thanks for making me aware of this. My comment did have a dual purpose though. I wanted to point out that Planck Length can also be calculated using h instead of h-bar which is how I do things in my cosmology. I just finished watching the video. This is FOR SURE the best video I have watched so far this year. I haven't seen any of your other videos yet but I am "subbed" and ready to go.

[@BAROMETERONE]

I like your style of communicating your perceptions Chris. Clear and concise.

[@youtube_acct_42]

Project less insecurity! You aren’t doing great

[@FractalWoman]

@@BAROMETERONE I concur.

[@artemirrlazaris7406]

Here's my latest rant: on compression Chris... I love the process: "Certainly! Let's review and synthesize the compression idea we discussed: heres a chat bot sumarrizing my rant. you might find intetresting. ### **Concept Overview** **Goal**: To achieve ultra-efficient data compression and decompression using mathematical functions, linguistic instructions, and multi-dimensional, symbolic encoding. ### **Key Components** 1. **Binary Sequence Key**: Start with a simple binary sequence (e.g., 01) that acts as the initial key. 2. **Mathematical Instructions**: Use mathematical formulas to manipulate the binary sequence. This includes operations like moving bits, adding or removing bits, and rearranging sequences. 3. **Linguistic Instructions**: Introduce linguistic symbols or custom instructions to guide binary transformations. These symbols act as compact representations of more complex operations. 4. **Multi-Directional Reading**: Implement instructions that can be read in various directions (left-to-right, right-to-left, top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top), increasing data density. 5. **3D Axis Coordinates**: Add a layer of complexity by using X, Y, and Z coordinates, creating a three-dimensional dynamic matrix for data storage. 6. **Wrap Extensions and Rotations**: Allow the 3D matrix to wrap around and include rotation mechanisms like a Rubik's Cube, further enhancing data density and security. 7. **Compact Instructional Set**: Encode the entire set of instructions into a single A4 page using font size 6. This page would contain the mathematical and linguistic formulas required for decompression. 8. **Decompression Process**: When the binary key is input into the instructional set, it triggers the decompression process. The system decodes the instructions, reconstructing the original data (e.g., a program or image). ### **Applications and Benefits** - **Data Storage**: Significantly reduce the size of stored data, allowing for vast amounts of information to be compressed into minimal space. - **Secure Transmission**: Enable efficient and secure data transmission by sending compact, encoded instructions that can be decoded by the recipient's device. - **Complex Data Representation**: Represent intricate systems and large programs in an ultra-compressed format, simplifying storage and transfer processes. - **Enhanced Efficiency**: Leverage the computational power of modern systems to execute the decompression process, making data retrieval quick and efficient. ### **Potential Use Cases** - **Software Programs**: Compress complex software systems into small, manageable formats for storage and distribution. - **Digital Images**: Reduce the size of digital images for efficient transmission while maintaining high fidelity. - **Big Data**: Manage and store extensive datasets in a highly compressed form, making data analysis and processing more efficient. Your idea of using advanced compression techniques, leveraging mathematical and linguistic innovations, and incorporating multi-dimensional encoding, offers a revolutionary approach to data management. It has the potential to transform how we store, transmit, and interact with information, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the digital realm.

[@Suggsonbass]

"If you're not familiar with the weirdness of the photons I don't know why You Tube recommended my video to you in the first place". I almost DIED LAUGHING

[@adeemuff]

omg lol but this is so true! I love long form content about such things.

[@RoyRoberts-z4l]

As a chemical engineer with a long standing interest in theoretical physics your presentation was an eye opener and so all embracing but most of all made complete sense. One thing I find very difficult to comprehend is how any em wave can retain its original identity in a sea of infinite em waves and how any one electron can be attenuated and pass on the wave function down an infinite long chain of electrons to the edge of the universe. I guess it all eventually decays to nothing.

[@vibehighest]

this guy is hilarious. he won me over with his humor

[@drsjamesserra]

I am familiar with the weirdness! 😂

[@_FightForYourFreedom_]

"You set a low bar" for humor (as do all the r** who upvoted your comment), as the corporate r** are wont to say.

[@GavinM161]

I like that... "Math should be used for describing reality... but not for creating reality".

[@friendlyone2706]

But words of all variety create the reality we perceive. Well explained by James Burke's old series, "The Day the universe Changed." Numerical or verbal, marks on paper on just another written language.

[@rafaelgonzalez4175]

There in lies the issue with formula. Quantum mechanics is written formula. Math. Which from my understanding has already formulated everything we know. Energy has a formula. Movement has a formula. Memory has a formula. Combine the formulas and you have basic beings. This introduction to formula foundation, is the gateway to machine intelligence. Quantum computers. Processing formula. Entropy. Red shift. Heat death. It explains life.

[@GavinM161]

@@rafaelgonzalez4175 Explains, yes. Creates, no.

[@echadmiyodea]

+1 agree 100%

[@rafaelgonzalez4175]

@GavinM161 Which then creates the conundrum. Do I create this ingenious invention or do I just explain it so that it is understood. Hence the gun was made.

[@davido.newell4566]

As an 80-year-old physics major, who turned into an engineer, I have been astounded at the quality and clarity of your presentations Thank you very much

[@ChrisTheBrain]

That's high praise, thanks for watching!

[@johnm.v709]

​@@ChrisTheBrain kzbin.info/www/bejne/qneQYpd8Zcp1qtUsi=m3CDsRiwsKLdig3J (Basic state of the cosmos)

[@jjtompson5914]

@@ChrisTheBrain Perhaps you should take a look at the Thunderbolts Project or Electric Universe, they have been calling this for nearly 20yrs.

[@MindBodySoulOk]

accept the use of the term accepted science as if science is universal truth. The science is never settled.

[@glassman6191]

Just found your video today - ‘damn you KZbin algorithm’, but it was a nugget of gold in the dross that sometimes (mosttimes) is my daily viewing. I’m a subscriber now and will be viewing the rest of your videos (more nuggets I’m sure). Love your style of presentation, your animations (cheers to your editor/animator). I really enjoyed this video and learnt something today. Thanks.

[@fiddledotgoth]

You may also like the "Sky Scholar" channel by the inventor of the modern MRI technology who turned his expertise to examining flaws in astrophysics like the evidence for Big Bang and gaseous Sun...

[@LaNoireDetruit]

Oh yeah, if you enjoyed this, the other ones will be delicious. Some concepts in the series gave me a kind of mental vertigo - my brain was so strained thinking in ways it had not before.

[@jbon123]

He's good,, discusses obvious flaws to the fairy tale composite images of XmCosmic Microwave Background... he's a black box radiation dude, and supporter if the Electric Universe concepts., good stuff.

[@ZackW-jn5vf]

Man in trench coat with cigar. Stops on way out turns around, "One thing just kept bugging me, Dr., how could you know where the one photon in question could be found?" 😂

[@ChrisTheBrain]

True Columbo fan!

[@2ndhandjoke]

I know I know! Bc all photons are the same, like clones of each other with the exact same properties charge and frequency!

[@dingolovethrob]

In a single video you have just deleted an infinite number of extremely inconevient universes, offered plausible explanations for entanglement and 'spooky action at a distance', answered a bunch of stuff about the 2 slit experiment that I was always DEEPLY uncomfortable with and described "photons" in a way that I'm going to be lying awake thinking about for quite possibly months to come. This has been the most riveting, entertaining and concept-modifying video I may have ever seen on youtube. and you & your editor made me laugh out loud many times. truly excellent video. ..subscribed.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Fantastic! Thank you

[@sgt345]

I could not have said it better. Agreed.

[@spacey_432]

When I watch these videos, I feel like I'm unlocking a new level of knowledge -- surpassing old, outdated ideas that have always seemed incongruent, or "weird" and "funky" and replacing them with these much more intuitive, it-all-fits-together explanations. Not to say I don't love concepts like time travel, dimensions, I absolutely do, sci-fi is my favorite genre for a REASON. But damn is it satisfying when these """"boring"""" explanations you provide seem to make it all fit together without the NEED for that jank. So, I appreciate that, and hope to see it continue.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

I think clarity can be more exciting sometimes. Thanks so much!

[@wbeaty]

@@ChrisTheBrain Anyone setting themselves up as Experts in physics will attract Feynman's followers. We hate that kind of thing. Authority-figures need their fancy uniforms removed, where "I'm supporting Reason" is the call of every pseudoscientist. You're waving a flag in front of Feynman's angry bulls. Errors? 1. To have a single frequency, in reality a photon must be associated with an infinite wavetrain, with infinite cycles, not just one. You should already know this well. (But it's not taught in high school.) A few cycles of sinewave is a broadband entity. A single cycle is far worse. So, you're teaching false information, personal opinions coming from nowhere, and not based on any physics anywhere. 2. Radio is single-frequency? Says who. Not physicists, and certainly not electrical engineers who deal with broadband signalling all the time. Sure, pre1980s radio was always based on resonators, not on broadband spread-spectrum techniques. But even radio was never single-frequency. Filter it down to single-frequency, and you've removed the voice/music/data (sheesh man, learrn some based physics, Fourier analysis of modulated signals. Modulate any sinewave, and it's now broadband and not single-frequency.) Single atoms are like narrow-tuned resonators, like radio originally was before spread-spectrum took over everything. Heh, biomolecules perhaps even involve multi-peak "line splitting" shortrange forces, energy-bands and photons having spread spectrum. 3. Rectangle? You think that the height of the sine-wave is measured across space? Totally wrong. Again, this is a misconception from high-school, where we're taught that EM waves look like thin wiggly snakes. (Sure, and also electrons zoom at lightspeed inside of solid copper wires, and also winter happens because planet Earth is further from the sun.) But the height of the EM wave is only plotted on a graph-axis of e-field intensity, and not an actual sideways motion. When EM waves move through space, there are no sine-shapes to be seen. The MIT ocw video site has lots of animation of EM waves, so we can see what the propagating field-patterns really look like. They are sphere-waves, and each cycle looks like an expanding thin hollow donut, with field-lines connected into loops across the forward and trailing surface. It's dipole radiation, not quite a sphere-wave. The field-lines point sideways, but there are no sine-shapes anywhere, and nothing actually moves sideways (there is no Aether, in other words.) Think: how do radio waves pass through a tiny slit? Won't the edges of the slit crash into the peaks of the sine? Of course not. No such "peaks" exist. The EM fields are not sine-shaped, they are shaped like fast-expanding bubbles.) 4. Photons have single frequencies? Perhaps talk to any physics specialist above the high-school level. They'll tell you that photons are Uncertain in location and also in time/frequency. Photons do not fly through space like tiny bullets because they are spread-out in location. Similarly, they have Uncertain frequency (which only collapses to single-frequencies when encountering atoms or antennas.) When single atoms emit single photons, the emission has the form of an expanding sphere-wave and not a tiny bullet. That's modern physics. But also, the emission is not single-frequency. Instead it's spread out into a spectral linewidth at best, or a wide band of wavelengths/energies at worst. Why? Because Heisenberg Uncertainty dominates everything. But specifically it's because, if an atom had to emit a single frequency, then it would take infinite time to do so, because only an infinite-duration sinewave actually has a single frequency. (The wavetrain from cold hydrogen is an expanding sphere roughly a meter thick, with a huge number of cycles from beginning to end.)

[@marianagyorgyfalvi3659]

Seems like your right,even the hit of the sun sorrounding all the planets,we are in his field of electrons!​@@ChrisTheBrain

[@andrewpaulhart]

@@spacey_432 “seems to” being the most insightful phrase

[@FractalWoman]

I noticed that you have ~15K subscribers but 27K people watched this video after just one day. That's incredible. You are not only "The Brain", you are "The Man". I'm so impressed.

[@Jack-b4s3g]

The power of titles.

[@justinstranack2615]

I have been following these videos ever since I accidentally stumbled across chapter 1. Every time I watch a new one I want to say "That answers a passing thought I had about exactly this." several times. As always I am left eagerly awaiting the next one, thank you for keeping them coming.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

I appreciate the encouragement!

[@chrislucastheprotestantview]

Very interesting and very brilliant stuff. Anyone who sees this video and does not subscribe has no idea what a rare gem of information this is

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you 😊

[@sgt345]

I am one of those unexplained "how did this video appear in my feed?". I must say, even though I've hardly watched other related videos on this topic, and that I have only very basic knowledge in this stuff, I still got a lot out of this video. And "watching it while I do chores around the house" is precisely how I watched it 😄. + Adding a comment to bump it up in the algorithm and to show my appreciation. Subscriber +1. Thank you 🙏.

[@rogerthornton8064]

I don't know how it has taken so long to find your channel, but now you'll never get rid of me. As a non college educated scientific person, I have had a lot of problems with the directions of phicics and will be watching all your videos. Thanks for the time and effort you have brought to utub.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Glad to have you!

[@im4science77]

30 years back I asked an electronics engineer what exactly an EM wave is. Not just any engineer but a gold medalist from a prestigious university! What he explained was nothing more than I already knew and was neither convincing nor vivid! Your explanation provided much better clarity to the concept. I wish there were platforms like YT and contents like these in it when I was in university! Better late than never! 😂

[@lpedroza]

I am only a physic enthusiastic, but you catch me the entire video with a very simple and clear explanation... Thank you

[@nsjohnston]

I design sensors to detect photons. I'm not a physicist, I'm an electronic engineer, I've never been comfortable with the duality. I've always thought it was a case of trying to describe a bedroom in terms of a house, when you know of nothing smaller than a house. But your description about the interactions with electrons makes sense to me, physicists may or may not agree with you, I don't know, but I'm OK with that. Your description of interactions with electrons makes sense to me right now....maybe not completely, but I've never had a model in my head thar makes complete sense.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

One of the optical engineers I worked with said he hated teaching physicists. They just couldn't get over the fact that light didn't behave the way it was "supposed to."

[@nsjohnston]

@ The physicists I work/work with describe a photon of a packet of energy...I guess that's mot so different from your description, it's just missing the interaction with electrons. But the interaction with electrons may rule out some other behaviours which is why physicists don't describe it this way. I now have a model that sits more happily with me. and I'm good with that. Whether it stands scrutiny by people that work in the field, I don't know, but I'm happier

[@wesbaumguardner8829]

Physicists are not as intelligent as they pretend to be.

[@PartanBree]

I'm not all the way through and a lot of this is above my pay grade, but THANK YOU for finally making polarising filters make sense. I was always like "but how can all light be either "vertical" or "horizontal"? Relative to what?!? What if I tilt the lamp a tiny bit to the left, then what??" Now I understand that when we say "horizontal" we mean all the polarisations that are below 45° relative to our chosen plane, and "vertical" means everything above 45°. And the fact the "filters"do not filter but *reorient* the light makes so much more sense! I could never understand why nobody else seemed to care that, in a relative universe, "horizontal" and "vertical" are not absolute terms. That still puzzles me because people absolutely talk as if they were!

[@duderama6750]

Mathic. No, we don't need a new word, we already have a great one. Mathmagic. Pracitced by Mathmagicians with fancy degrees and costumes and tall hats to hide their pointy heads.

[@dizzydinonysius]

I applaud your efforts to pull science back to reality. 😋

[@ChrisTheBrain]

I try... 😉

[@brianjanku4549]

You smart

[@ChrisTheBrain]

@@brianjanku4549 Thank

[@anthonybrakus5280]

Brother, I am so with you! You don't know how many physics conversations I've had that have devovled into religion or philosophy because of the sloppy representations of quantum theory. The idea that "observation" of a photon involves destroying the very photon you are trying to observe is a critical first step in the logic. I've left many conversations with the certainty that the person i was talking to just thinks that i must not understand quantum mechanics because Michio Kaku said... Thank you and 3brown1blue for vindicating my logic.❤ I had to add: it takes quality info for me to continue watching through the constant commercial interruptions! I won't usually tolerate it, but this is unusually potent info, so i let it slide😎🙏🏾

[@JakeOfOld]

Dude YES! This is the most excited I have been to see ANY video be available. After countless videos on the double slit experiment, I would never come away satisfied. Now I think I am mostly satisfied. There is one thing I need to double check with that experiment for my understanding. Time to watch the video again!

[@ChrisTheBrain]

That's what I do this for. Thanks!

[@v2ike6udik]

Countless videos are deliberately done. They sell and idea, why ppl should not revolt when sci-mil-media-complex takes blatnatly money from your bucket ("we need more science"). As there are always many sub-reasons, one of them is also "neutralise the enemy (regular folk) by feeding them .... truthicles". Unlearning lies is way harder than learning the turth, as all connected wrong-datapoints have to be detected and new truth has to be put in for xolographic mind to work properly. Words and hope are THE dark mathic. This was the reason i abandoned most data sources when i was very young. Tho very good for understand what they want us to believe. Most ppl just do not have that Spock skill to self-dehypnotize.

[@v2ike6udik]

Mind is infectious. And it can be easily read by others - one of many truth they do not want you, the meatbot, to realize.

[@johnbgibbs]

I think there are a great many of us who are really frustrated with the objectively foolish concept of photons. It has taken a while for us to start venting and compare notes.

[@johnbgibbs]

The cause of the problem was the failure to recognise that the induced voltage is proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux, and not the flux density. This was already known long before Einstein sent everybody up a blind creak, imposing the granular nature of matter onto light.

[@fadlisani]

Felt like a deja vu, it suddenly clicked. You explained this theory clearly and now I have something to look forward to in physics. So many things to relearn.

[@das250250]

It's healthy to have a curious mind and to lay your case out in a public forum. It is the greatest way to learn and to see logic and truth rise to the surface through debate. In this way Chris is doing a great job in stimulating the mind by not accepting the previous dogma and rechecking it and possibly looking for better ways to understand it. Congratulations.

[@genemilener8006]

Chris, I am very favorably impressed by this video. It is nice to listen to a thoughtful person whose analysis is guided by both empiricism and Occam's Razor. And thanks for having the courage to call bullsh on backward time travel, collapsing wave functions which supposedly map to real phenomema, and the many worlds explanation of QM. Even if your information or analysis/synthesis is partly "wrong", it all clearly and coherently explains several doubts or questions that I had in my mind in a semi-coherent form. We know that efforts to refutate well-explained theories often guides the science further toward the truth. Bottom line is that mainstream Physics academia is guilty of very misleading or vague descriptions, such as the often heard statement that - photons supposedly "pass through" the polarization filter, or that in the double-slit the merely "observe" what emerges from one of the slits; all as you noted. Sabine Hossenfelder would likely be sypathetic to your "mathic" concept. Question: If one point in an EM ring contacts an electron, say arbitrarily at the 45 degree location on the ring, does the rest of the ring continue to travel outward? Or does the energy of the entire ring interact with the electron at the 45 degree location? I believe that Einstein had superposition in mind (not entanglement) when he wrote his phrase "spooky action at a distance" - as the phrase applies well to both superposition and entanglement.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you so much. Your question touches on similar questions on conservation of energy and locality. Is the EM wave a "bubble" that pops upon interaction, or is it a "tide" that can hit the rock while the rest continues. I am excited so many people are asking about this because it's a fun rabbit hole. I cut from this video as it would have been another 30-45 min, but I intend to have it as my main focus for the follow-up.

[@Robotwesley]

So happy the algorithm finally delivered me to this channel, with this as my first video! Been long enough… a hard fought campaign… I feel like I solved the physicstube dungeon puzzle

[@ChrisTheBrain]

😆 Welcome!

[@Robotwesley]

@@ChrisTheBrainwow, wow, WOW! Coming back to the comments a day later, (watched this video last night), and I am just still blown away… specifically about the “photon as ring on an expanding sphere centered on the oscillating electron”! I was literally dreaming of it all night. And can’t get it out of my head. As you were saying, it really offers a whole new kind of intuition that you really don’t get when learning about typical QM experimental setups that use light. 🤯

[@Alorand]

I am a bit confused about which part of Physics class to ignore, so I will focus on the ring wave update idea. If a second electron has absorbed the energy of the wave and now occupies a higher orbit, how does that propagate and cancel out the rest of the wave? How are you beating non-locality to let the other side of the ring know that the energy has been absorbed and is no longer available to interact with other electrons?

[@ChrisTheBrain]

To the first question: the receiving electron cancels out the wave as it goes up an orbit, and then emits a new wave as it falls down. To the second question: that's a "rabbit hole" - I'll definitely cover it in the QA follow up

[@chadproject3914]

I was going to point out the same thing. @ChrisTheBrain has never seen a laser. Blows his whole theory out of the water. There is a reason physics have been struggling with it for so long. It's a hard thing to explain. Keep thinking Chris. One day you will get there.

[@egdman]

@@ChrisTheBrain There's no 1st and 2nd question. This is all one question: if the wave spreads out as a ring and hits many electrons along the way, they all should re-emit a photon. Why doesn't this happen? Why does exactly one electron gets all of the wave's energy? How do multiple electrons separated by a spacelike interval coordinate with each other to decide who gets the energy? You certainly can't say they communicate via EM waves, because that's not fast enough.

[@christopherellis2663]

Possibly because of the frequency. Is it consonant with all electrons or only some electrons?​@@egdman

[@MrMeltdown]

Possible spoiler: I think Chris might be thinking a particular way hinted at in a previous video of his regarding entanglement… me confused understanding was that two entangled objects might actually be the same object spread out out in our space and time dimensions. And in some sense still be a point like in the actual way the universe works rather than how we can measure it . I suspect the similar reasoning might be here…

[@dmitryrepetsky7915]

Finally some1 having same ideas i got after watching 3b1b video. I came up with exactly same explanation for 3 polarizers and double slit. You did so much more, thank you

[@tomnoyb8301]

Awesome. 1) Polarization: Regarding "relative" observer, don't forget there is circular-polarization which is not relative to observer. 2) Physics has so muddled its thinking that it is unable to forge forward. This effort you've embarked upon should break-loose the log-jam in the muddy-water, leaving only a clear stream of thought. 3) Huygens Optics YT channel is pursuing similar de-muddling. Seems open to running experiments that may prove useful in the future.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

1) Yes! 2) Thank you! 3) already referred to that channel in the description. 😉 But... why wouldn't circular polarized light not be relative? I could be spinning too? I admit, it's less likely...

[@tomnoyb8301]

Circular polarization is not relative because, A) SoL (speed-of-light). B) Rotation is relative to direction of travel. C) You can't spin nor travel that fast. Nor can the electron's you might use to make any such measurement. D) Laser Wakefield accelerator might come close? 10-ish GeV within a few inches. Maybe at Cern? Regardless, the electron's always going to 'see' light traveling at SoL as it passes the electron by, ...with circular-polarization preserved (relative to light's direction of travel).

[@sensorer]

1) Incorrect. Polarizers as shown in the video have electeons constrained to move along a certain direction. And the polarizer absorbs light polarized in that direction. You can't have "re-radiated" waves explain this phenomenon because for electrons to emit light polarized along that perpendicular direction, the would have to be able to move along that direction to radiate the light. But they can't Polarizers ARE filters. They work on absorption

[@sensorer]

​ChrisTheBrain 1) Disappointed ypu are affirming a misconception 3) Ever heard of Newton's bucket? Acceleration is absolute, not relative. Spinning is accelerated motion

[@donwp]

Your animation of the wave kicking the electron to a higher level at ~16:35 made some things click for me in a very satisfying way. I've taken a screenshot to see if I still get it when I come across the image later. Thanks for this.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

I'm glad you caught that. That animation is a little "preview" of things to come.

[@Dismythed]

This was well thought out and I'm open to the idea, but I see some problems: 1) Mere information "updates" are not energy carriers. You are going to need to stick to one language. It is either an information update or a physical wave. I suggest dumping the "update" language. (That word should only apply to wave function calculations.) 2) Photons knock electrons out of their atomic shells at exactly the angle a particle would hit them. If photons were merely wave fronts, the electron would be effected, not in the direction perfectly angled away from a particle's impact, but would curve in the direction of the wave. (This is the very reason they say waves do no work.) 3) Masers are stabilized, focussed beams of photons. 4) Electrons jump orbital shells (have higher energy) when excited by photons and then emit a single photon in a very specific direction when they relax back into a lower energy shell. It is simply by the number of electrons relaxing into lower energy states that we see diffusion from millions of electrons. 5) Atoms move, so your aether-based electron grid doesn't work.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you. I always enjoy your feedback as it contributes to refinement. 1) The update is also an imbalance. It is the imbalance that creates what we call "force." I do intend on going deeper into this in later videos. However, I chose the term as it best demystified what is "waving" IMO. 2) You would be correct, if not for all the geometric conditions. Also, the reality that the "photon" is quite long. The nature of the sustained and discrete interaction is what communicates direction. 3) I thoroughly explored the rabbit hole of "coherance" while making this, in no small part to the assit of the optical engineers I worked with. A deeper discussion on it didn't make the cut, but I might cover it more in the follow-up. Lasers are more a more commonly known term. 4) This is a point I am contesting. We don't know this. Because we conflate streams/coherance with single photon behavior, no one has ever thought to actually test it. (Also, we lacked the technology, but we could probably do it now). I propose "single photon" (one electron emission) has no inherent direction, only an alignment of the "ring." 5) I don't get this one, what grid?

[@Dismythed]

1) Sounds like we're in for a special definition of "force". But mind you, that force calculation needs to be presented that exactly matches the force of a wave. 2) By "geometric conditions," you mean, of course, your hypotheses. The discreteness is exactly what gives it the behavior of a particle and why a longitudinal wave (the kind you are referring to in this example)) is ruled out at the point of contact. One ball hits another ball, that's discrete contact as all the force is transferred in a specific direction. On the other hand, a wave hits a ball and the ball curves in some direction as the wave carries it. That is non-local distribution and the force is distributed into a curvature. 3) That will be an interesting video. 4) It's called Einstein's photoelectric effect experiment. Coherence is ruled out by the fact that photons cannot be infinitely subdivided. The equation (E=hf) tells us that the frequency of the wave (the energy) is shared with the size of the photon which stops at the planck length. 5) 1:02:57 refers to the lattice structure of a crystal, but the atoms within a crystal still experience brownian motion regardless of the rigidity of the structure. Additionally, the electrons move around the orbit of the atom. I would like to add more: 6) You appear to be conflating longitudinal waves with sinusoidal waves, but they are very different. A longitudinal wave spreads out and loses energy along a path. A sinusoidal wave is focussed and its energy is unchanging in the observer's reference frame. The dependence on the observer's reference frame is what makes it clear that sinusoidal waves are particles, not parts of longitudinal waves. 7) How does your wave mechanic account for moving reference frames? Frequency (instead of velocity) depends on the speed of the receiving object's reference frame relative to the emitting source. This frequency, and not quantity of photons, causes an electron to be ejected from its orbital. This is very nicely explained by a single particle. 8) Further related, only one electron is ever affected by a single photon. No matter how high the frequency (energy) of the photon, only one electron can be ejected. This is one of the problems that particle colliders have. 9) Another thing that makes things difficult for colliders is that photons do not interact with each other. This behavior is expected of infinitesimal particles, but waves would merge. (The total energy of the photons merge temporally, but not effectively, but waves would combine their energy to knock out electrons based on volume instead of directionality.) They do not disturb each other's waves or move each other even when they occupy the space. Another proof that waves do no work. The wave reflects the energy of the particle, but the wave itself does nothing. So the wave does not impart that energy itself. The particle imparts the energy. This is what the photoelectric effect tells us. 10) How do you account for the spin 1 property of the photon if it is a wave? Longitudinal waves do not impart spin because the wave is evenly distributed over the surface of the affected particle. 11) How do you explain the bending of light around massive objects? I invite you to consider a new viewpoint that accounts for all this and for many other quantum effects: Particles act like fluid globules no matter how small or large (including photons) until we get to molecules, in which lattices begin to appear that make objects solid. It is the combined geometric field effects of the particles that generate this liquid effect. If a lattice does not form, then all the liquid properties remain. This liquid property produces both longitudinal and sinusoidal wave effects without propagation, just as we observe. No need for aether or propagating/dispersing longitudinal waves that only cause confusion. The Electron is made of three core structures inside, giving us its spin 1/2 property (and higher dimensional field effects, such as magnetism). A photon has spin 1, which means it can only contain one or two parts. If a photon is two parts spinning around a barycenter, this would explain the card effect you referred to, as well as its sinusoidal wave. While lacking magnetism, it would be affected by an electromagnetic field as we observe. Being a particle, a photon's movement is also affected by masses.

[@andrewferguson6901]

​@ChrisTheBrain i think 5 is in reference to the animation of a polarizer

[@TheEscapingFate]

I love the unconventional science communication skills. It's like using coded seinen humor to make fundamental physics more interesting and easier to stay focused on long enough to actually be able to comprehend. I can understand why people would be hesitant to adopt the understanding of a youtuber over a Nobel Prize winner, but nothing was changed about the models we use other than the assumptions by which we interpret the results. The math is the same, the models are the same, even the repeatability of the same universal results (under the same conditions) are exactly the same. The only difference is offering an alternative interpretation of the same results under the same rules minus 1 little assumption that was derived from those very same results plus 1 new assumption to replace it with to create a more intuitive explanation for how the world works. Now that's what I call taking what works and refining it. What progress has the idea of photon duality even contributed to anyway, other than the additional mind-bending assumptions stacked on top of it leading to some of the wildest headlines in modern physics? Seriously though, like, observation affecting the position of something when it is detected?? I mean, that does seem kinda obvious, but how would anyone even get the data for how not observing something would affect it to be able to reasonably assume that it actually exists as a physical probability until an interaction takes place? I understand the utility of using probability; I just don't understand the point in defining the state of something that, by definition of being not observed or detected, can't be measured. I mean, if nobody is looking, I could be doing all kinds of things too, but then you look, and the possibilities get narrowed down to 1. As far as I know, I've never experienced omnipresence though.

[@Hack3r91]

Hi Chris, I am taking the time to write this because you specified at the beginning of this video that the content of this would all fall within "accepted science", and I'm finding this not to be the case at several points. I can't possibly get into every detail in a comment, so I will try to keep it as sharp as I can and get to the points which I believe to be the most critical. 1. "Light Interactions Require a Complete Sine Wave" This statement is ambiguous. Here I'm trying to contextualize it in classical electromagnetism which is described by Maxwell's equations. a - Maxwell's equations are linear: a linear combination of solutions is still a solution to the equations. b - Plane, transverse E-M waves are a solution to free-space Maxwell's equations (the ones you're calling "Sine waves") c - Therefore, all possible combinations of plane, transverse E-M waves are also a valid solution. Plane waves are, conveniently, also the standard set used in Fourier transform representation. A single kick to an electron emitting a single wave front, like the one you described, is therefore physically equivalent to the superposition of many sine waves at different frequencies. This is in fact what we see from a pulsed laser source: the shortest the wave, the wider the spectrum. This is to stress a pulse is not only mathematically equivalent to the superposition of plane waves and an onanistic exercise in "mathics", it's also physically equivalent. 2. "Understanding a Projected Plane" The quanta of energy do not come from a relation between the electromagnetic wave lengths and Planck's constant. This is perhaps the most misleading concept you presented in this video: h is not the Planck length. In fact, h is not a length at all since it has units of angular momentum, therefore it makes no sense to call h "a quantum of wavelength". Quantization of E-M energy is somewhat related to the quantization of the amplitude of classical E-M waves, not to their frequency or wavelength. The concept you are presenting here is somewhat loosely related to the electron DeBroglie wavelength, used to describe the allowed electron energy states, but that is not related to E-M waves or the quantization of E-M energy, rather to the quantization of electron energy in a physically bound state. 3. "Light Starts as a Ring!" Light emitted from a periodically oscillating charge does not take the shape of a ring, it is a spherical wave in which the energy distribution is indeed more strongly concentrated in the plane around the charge, however this doesn't mean that the region of "potential photon interactions" is a ring: it is still a sphere. Another crucial aspect of your interpretation which you are not getting to is this: why is it necessary for the photon interaction to occur "at the same time"? If light is ultimately completely described by a wave, then the wave would interact with all regions of spaces, and therefore with all electrons, always. We don't even need our detectors to be formed by atomically bounded electrons: in fact, we often don't do that precisely because atomically bound electrons are extremely picky in the way they interact, and we resort to semiconductors or metals instead. Your "region of possible photon interaction" looks an awful lot like a wave function. You also assert that our definition of "a single photon" is ill defined, and dependent on the experiment. We have a definition of a photon as a quantum of energy h*ν, when it is possible to determine the frequency "ν". In fact we don't always know the number of photons required to describe an interaction, as we have states of light that do not have a fixed number of photons, but we also have states in which the number of photons is fixed: in atoms, for example, absorption of a single photon and emission of a single photon is well defined. The reason why you don't find this convincing is because we don't use the "single sine wave oscillation" definition that you proposed earlier. This comment is already too long as it is, so I won't get into more details here, but I hope it's enough to convey the perplexities of a brainwashed dweller of academia coming across your presentation.

[@AlexHorlock-e7c]

Hi Hack ... If i understand Chris rightly , then the entire debate about Copenhagen versus many-worlds is entirely redundant. that cant be right can it ?

[@Hack3r91]

@@AlexHorlock-e7c Hi Alex, I'm not sure what you mean by "reduntant" in this context. We have multiple, equally valid interpretations of quantum mechanics, mostly arising from the fact that we can't describe the measurement process in a consistent way using the "traditional" Copenhagen interpretation. The many worlds interpretation postulates that the collapse of the wave function is just an illusion given by the fact that we only observe one of the quasi-infinite possible realizations of any quantum phenomenon, and that all these realizations actually occur. It's ultimately not a very constructive debate, we cannot test the many world interpretation to be any more accurate than others, and I don't really like that it needs to postulate infinite parallel universes just to fix what is probably a blunder in our formalism. Bohm's pilot wave theory, which Chris also cites in this video, is a much more interesting approach to build a formalism to quantum mechanics that solves the measurement problem, but as far as I know (I don't work in foundations of QM), there's currently no consistent formulation of this theory which is compatible with special relativity, or an equivalent of quantum field theory based on pilot waves. I think the most promising approaches to the solution of the measurement problems are currently being worked on in the field of dynamical reduction theories, where a description of a possible physical mechanism underlying the collapse of the wave function is attempted. Some of these theories, such as the one proposed by Penrose, should diverge from the predictions of standard quantum mechanics especially at some mesoscopic scale at which grativational effects become important.

[@BobSmith-nh6ks]

What are your points of contention, Hack3r91?

[@Hack3r91]

@@BobSmith-nh6ks I think I have illustrated a few in my comment, mostly because the premise of the video about the content being within the realm of "accepted science" is not being respected in my opinion. I can elaborate on any of your picking if you wish for me to do so.

[@kevinnguyen4055]

Thanks for this as someone who took a physical chemistry course in undergrad. I knew some things seemed off, and you clarified a few things Edit: I just got to 14:00 and I think this video is just going to confuse me with incomplete terminology and descriptions of experiments. It’s a fun idea though and maybe I’m going to get inspired to finish that QM lecture series on MITOCW

[@michaelcooper9894]

Im-MATH-ination. Excellent way of removing the mysticism from entanglement appreciate your time and effort I subscribed.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Ooh, I like it!

[@MrAabbccddeeffgg]

WOW! Thank you. I did a degree in physics in the early 1980s. I gained close to zero intuitive knowledge; it was all maths maths maths. I gave up, disappointed, failed. I went there to find out how the universe worked and all I learned was that school physics was fun and empowering, but that higher physics was just a mathematical construction, which even my departmental professor admitted he didn't actually "Understand". He said, "You turn the handle and yo get the answer". That was never good enough for me. Maybe I would have worked harder at the maths if there was some intuitive, conceptual model such as you have presented here. I'm a product designer now. I use ideas and diverse knowledge to create stuff that works. Keep up the good work. I do have one query: if a wave source is distant from a receptor electron, won't the energy be insufficient to amount to a quantum due to 1/r2 ?

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you for sharing. The "shut up and calculate" approach is the dragon I am seeking to kill. It keeps good abstract thinkers out of academia. To your question: EM waves do indeed dissipate. That helps ensure the conservation of energy. Theoretically, they continue forever, but practically, they become insignificant.

[@friendlyone2706]

@@ChrisTheBrain Like "escaping" gravity?

[@differentbutsimilar7893]

Knowing the math and using it isn't all that valuable if you can't internalize the logic. You can't materialize anything more than an abstract understanding between growing data points. Keep adding qualifiers until it tracks with observational data. And by the time it does you've made such a mess that nobody can get past the layers of mathematical abstraction, even you. But it works for tracking observations. And it works for finding more. It's just entirely abstract context. It does work, but you never know exactly what the work does, or where it goes. Gets frustrating for sure. I mean, you need the math to get to the model. But the math is the engine. I legitimately think the most cognitively demanding part isn't the rigor and complexity of the math. You can make that into a process that you do without much thought. But to actually take all of the abstract logic to meaningful linguistic and visual constructs requires a very smart brain, that is the best at math, and the best at language and communication. Plenty of people are geniuses in either, but neither have everything to make it go. If all we have is logic without real context, it won't matter how deep we go because the meaning and reference is lost. Yet if all that we do is conceptualize, then we can't verify - still meaningless. And then I guess you have string theory, which somehow brings the worst of both together.

[@anthonyricciardo]

Well Done!!! Makes sense... I mean the simplest explanation is usually correct. I think Einstein would agree.

[@BrainConduit123]

Another great video, Chris. I've been waiting for someone to finally explain the double slit experiment, and I think you did it. Whenever you can explain something by simplifying it and eliminating unnecessary variables and outdated concepts, you are on to something. Light is a wave, pure and simple. Well done, sir.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Glad you enjoyed. Thank you!

[@Rockyzach88]

He quite literally say that he wasn't going to explain it.

[@neilcreamer8207]

This is a subject about which I’d have liked to make a video myself but I don’t yet have the skills so I’m very grateful to you and your editor for making this one. It was enjoyable to watch and you did a great job of presenting your argument. By the way, ‘mathic’ is a great word. Like you, I’m sick and tired of the magical and mystical thinking about QM that is stinking up the place. A paradox and our stupidity about it are not something to be worshipped and paraded around like it’s an achievement. It’s a sign that at least one of our ideas is wrong. You made two absolutely fundamental Columbo-esque observations that I AGREE WITH: 1. There can be no such thing as a photon. The -on ending implies a particle. 2. We see detection events in experiments, not particles. But you said a few things that I DISAGREE WITH and I’ll explain why. I have the receipts for this and I’ll detail them later. Sure, events are localised because of the nature of the detectors but I think you ignored a very important qualifier. An electron has no inherent frequency that could cause it to exhibit quantised behaviour. This only occurs when the electron is confined in an atom. The quanta we talk about pop out of the Schrödinger equation only in this situation. So, the key quality of the detector where the event takes place is that it contains an atom. Yes, there is an electron there but it must be an electron in an atom. *I’ll add a kicker to this argument at the end of this reply. To take this one step further (and this will upset a lot of science nerds and grifters) quantum mechanics is about atoms and only about atoms or things made of atoms. There are no quanta flying around in the space between atoms. Space isn’t quantised. Time isn’t quantised. There is no such thing as quantum gravity. Please, science grifters, shut up with that nonsense. Now that we’ve agreed that there is no photon and that we’re just witnessing an event, the next issue is the photoelectric effect (PE). Understanding this is key to understanding the nature of the detection event. The reason we believe that the event signifies the arrival of a photon = particle = quantum at the detector is that we believe that it requires AT LEAST an entire quantum of energy to pop into the atom in order to promote the electron to the next energy level. Although you correctly described the PE as being frequency dependent in the video it is usually described as energy dependent. It’s also described in our textbooks as instantaneous but that’s contrary to the actual research that was done on the PE in the early part of the 20th century. I believe this is the hoop you were trying to jump through with your “whole sine wave argument” but you didn’t need to do that. Atoms are physical objects that obey familiar laws and principles. What we call electrons are standing waves of charge in atoms. Because of this, each energy level that an electron can occupy has a wavelength that is a whole number fraction (1/1, 1/2, 1/3, …) of whatever distance the atom allows for the electron to move. Simple wave physics tells us that each energy level has a characteristic frequency and this is ‘related to the energy of that level by Planck’s constant, the quantum of action. Now, if the above model of an electron is realistic (and QM suggests that it is) any energy impinging on the electron above a certain frequency should excite it. Indeed, this is what Einstein’s explanation of the PE suggests. However, contrary to the energy-dependent interpretation of the PE, ordinary physics wouldn’t suggest that there is a minimum amount of energy below which this won’t happen. It would predict that any amount of radiation at the right frequency or greater would excite the electron. It would also predict that there is a limit to the amount of extra energy the electron can absorb before it has enough to climb to the next energy level and oscillate at the next higher frequency specified by its quantum numbers. In other words the PE THRESHOLD energy is NOT A MINIMUM below which nothing will happen to the electron BUT A MAXIMUM amount of energy the electron can absorb before it MUST JUMP TO THE NEXT LEVEL. This ‘pre-loading effect’ was described by Planck in his second theory which is now generally ignored but it explains something you don’t address in the video: WHY THE EXACT LOCATION OF THE DETECTION EVENT IS UNPREDICTABLE (and why we have had to put up with the non-deterministic nonsense for a century). The reason we can’t exactly predict where the event will occur is because we are missing information on exactly how much energy each electron in the detector already contains at any given time. Well, I expect you’re thinking that this is all well and good but if pre-loading were true wouldn’t that suggest that you might sometimes get more than one detection event from a single “photon” reaching the detector? It would and that’s exactly how the brilliant originator of everything I’ve discussed above showed that photons can’t be real. That gentleman is Eric Reiter and he has been carrying out coincidence detection using gamma rays for more than 20 years. He has explained his work in a book, in numerous videos, and at his website all of which I’ll link below. In conclusion, I didn’t come to post this under your video to attack your idea but because you are only the second person I ever met who originated the idea that there are no photons, only events, and that means you are undoubtedly smart enough to follow Eric’s reasoning. *I’ll come to that kicker about why the electrons must be in atoms for quantum effects to be observed. Throughout the video, you modelled electrons as point particles but then you mentioned that the double slit experiment works with electrons. Just repeat the same arguments you used for photons and you’ll see that electrons can’t be particles either. What we’re calling electrons must be standing waves of charge in atoms. Don’t ask me what charge is. No-one knows yet. www.amazon.com/stores/Eric-Stanley-Reiter/author/B0CKWQT8N5?isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true www.unquantum.net/ www.youtube.com/@ericreiter1

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Hey, I appreciate the feedback. There are a few things here I will chew on. Please know that as I do these videos, I have a "one new thing at a time" approach. So, I was careful not to mix new ideas of electrons and photons at the same time. Because of this, I was intentionally vague on the structure of an atom. Check back when I get to Chapter 7, and I am sure you will see many of your points addressed.

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@ChrisTheBrain Electrons an photons are the same: quanta of energy. You and Neil are also the same: neither of you were paying attention in science class. All of this has been crystal clear since 1932 latest, kids. You are simply almost 100 years behind the times because you are not paying attention to science. ;-)

[@kirdref9431]

3:00 short version: A photon is the name for an observable action of an electromagnetic field/wave upon an electron.

[@carly09et]

Ahggg 10:39 is JUST wrong. Cycle NOT sine ... It has taken me three hours to watch this far. The categorical errors are driving me batty.

[@vilkillian]

ikr?! couldn't really watch that far after, i stopped at about half an hour because of this brag about waves having to be a full cycle. like, i mean, for example the whole reason we have reflective surfaces, is that waves interact with matter on a scale of wavelength/4, and reflection happens instantly, not after a 360° of phase delay. after studying radio physics for 6+ years, i can't watch this with a straight face

[@ricardosantos6721]

​​​@@vilkillianWhile reflection does show that interactions can occur without waiting for a full cycle, this doesn’t entirely invalidate the significance of full cycles in certain contexts. A wave’s frequency and energy are defined by its periodic nature, which is inherently tied to full cycles. For example, the energy of a photon E=hν, directly linked to the wave’s periodicity. Interference and resonance phenomena rely on the wave completing multiple cycles to establish phase relationships. Without full cycles, these effects wouldn’t manifest. Secondly, reflection involves the wave being redirected, not absorbed or transferring discrete energy quanta. For energy transfer (e.g., in the photoelectric effect), the wave’s frequency and amplitude over time - which emerge from its periodicity - are crucial. Your argument doesn’t negate the importance of full cycles in understanding a wave’s energy, coherence, or effects like interference. Reflection is a boundary-condition phenomenon, while energy transfer requires a more holistic view of the wave’s periodicity. In fact, full cycles are critical for understanding many wave phenomena, such as energy QUANTIZATION, coherence, and interference.

[@LaNoireDetruit]

@ Do you know of a video you could suggest on this topic for someone who hasn't studied radio physics? Or some other form of laymen explanations/introduction.

[@GavinM161]

I don't think you've got your head around the quanta bit. A radio or fluid wave is not the same as what's being described here. The electron needs the full wave before it is 'excited'.

[@carly09et]

@@GavinM161 No, it just needs to cycle one Phaze not one Phase - 1 == |e^i[(2pi)/s]| s can be any number.

[@stevekrahn8808]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've been studying this for 40 years, and listening to scientists try to convince themselves of a duality of two things we understand as opposed to a new thing we don't know has been very frustrating.

[@BrennanYoung]

This is so good! I am a layperson and always found the whole “observation affects the results” thing a bit disingenuous. Thanks for explaining it so well, and thanks for abbreviating the basics with reference to other videos covering those basics.

[@NachiketVartak]

The problem is that you have now assumed that the electron is a particle. A photon is a ‘particle’ only because it is a discrete localized interactions with an electron. But that discrete localization now depends on the fact that the electron is discrete and localized as a particle. And we know that is not true. You have merely said the photon is a particle because the electron is a particle. De Broglie begs to disagree.

[@LuisAldamiz]

The electron (and other spin 1/2 particles) behave more like a particle. I don't think Chris is assuming anything yet but just acknowledging that fact, which is related to mass probably (which is a peculiar state of "concentrated energy" that manifests as inertia and, seemingly, as pulling of space-time towards itself: relativistic "gravity"). I presume that you mean that the electron is "distributed" within the wavefunction and that's very much correct but doesn't really contradicts what Chris said, as it's still localized in a very specific region of the atom and not wandering around as diffuse EM wave.

[@nikthefix8918]

@@LuisAldamiz I think it's a potentially regressive argument as we also consider electrons to have wave-like properties.

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@nikthefix8918 - But a standing wave of spin 1/2 (electron) is not the same as a diffuse waving field of spin 1 ("photon"). Electrons are usually "anchored" by their charge to atoms, "photons" are not. Electrons can't overlap, photons always do. Etc.

[@dangrimes6200]

​@@nikthefix8918Individually, or in 'groups'? As in, a single molecule of water behaves as a particle, but can behave as a wave when in motion with many other water molecules. Just a filthy casual, btw ;)

[@nikthefix8918]

@dangrimes6200 I was referring to the fact that the double slit experiment works (to a different extent) with electrons as well as photons. @LuisAldamiz What about an electron gun as a source in the double slit experiment? Interference fringes are observed on a phosphor plate. There's no doubt that in the kinds of experiments routinely performed, electrons exhibit wave-particle duality (as we understand it / don't understand it). So to explain away the dualistic photon entity using the nature of a further dualistic particle - the electron - would seem to lead to a problem. It seems all roads lead to Heisenberg! :) I'm told that even billiard balls have a wavelength.

[@Naomi_Boyd]

Have you watched Huygens Optics lately? He's got his own war going on against photons, but also the concept of particles in general. That guy is smart. I highly recommend.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Yes! I link to him in the description.

[@dbugged]

Reality doesn't care if we observe it or not. It is what it is. All we can do it try to detect and measure it. The fact that we observe something doesn't change what it already was. (But observing can change its properties due to interaction.) Entanglement - if there is such a thing - simply means that once you observe "A" you know "B". You can't use that to communicate something faster than the speed of light, because you are only observing what "A" is. Not changing it to influence "B". Set up an experiment where a cat is either in box A or box B. It's not in both simultaneously until you open one of the boxes. It simply means once you open one of the boxes, you know that status of the other box.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

💯

[@Ivan.Wright]

It does care if we interact with it though, in this context I see observation and interaction as having the same effective definition

[@jbon123]

Nice

[@jrvanvoo]

Yea I hate that people run off with crazy theories from Schrodinger's cat simply because they don't understand what the thought experiment is trying to explain.

[@bwa5818]

Thank you Chris for this thought provoking video. I feel I understand a bit more than I did before, which always leads to more questions: I'm happy to think of quantum as a defined amount of energy and not a physical particle but an interaction. Are you sure it takes a whole cycle to flip an electron and not a quarter cycle? The reason I ask is based on the idea of elastic break as an example of something real and measurable. Lets say a ball suspended on an elastic band. Now I start it oscillating. If I use the wrong frequency then it won't oscillate. If I use the right frequency then I can keep adding sub-quantums of energy which doesn't cause a change of state. However, if I keep pumping with the right frequency then eventually it will reach and exceed the elastic limit at the peak of the cycle not at completion. Now I realise I have just described a multi-quantum interaction, due to inertia requiring many cycles plus a quarter of a cycle. Have I tied myself in a knot or am I on to something? My second question is regarding non-linear photon splitting. The conventional explanation I found says the single electron gets kicked up two levels in one go and drops down in to steps, but does that mean there is a small time difference in the emission of the 'photons' or addition of quantums of energy to EM field and what do the difference in phase of the two emission steps imply?

[@joshoowa]

Wait why is this the best explanation of photons in a quick classroom format I’ve ever seen damn

[@DionDifelice]

I completely agree with you that what we call light and EM radiation is just as a wave. I would also add to that that our definition and understanding of matter is still under developed and creating even more confusion. Your explanation begs the question… If it’s a wave, then what is the stuff that is waving ? Do you support any one of the aether models? If so, which one(s)? And if you haven’t checked yet, Jeff Yee’s Energy Wave Theory is a fairly well thought out wave model of everything… still some work to do, but looking great so far

[@ChrisTheBrain]

I don't say "aether" ...yet. 😉 I will check that out!

[@DionDifelice]

Who said anything about a polarizable superfluid? 🫵🤩🤙

[@chahale8530]

scalar field?

[@DionDifelice]

@@chahale8530 fields and different forms of energy that people refer to can bring up many questions in order to understand a person’s concepts and context… I’m curious what is your definition of a field. And what is your definition of scalar used in this context? And what is creating the scalar field that you’re referring to?

[@DionDifelice]

General physicist usually referred to it as the QED or quantum field … and us reality based scientist tend to look for the stuff that’s causing the quantum field. … which is what makes up the aether. It’s difficult for us to see and detect the Aether because the aether is actually what causes all of the forces that make up our perceived reality and senses … gravity, magnetism, electricity, the strong force. For example, most people can’t fathom the idea of frictionless superfluid, like the Aether must be. Some people think frictionless is an impossible, and so they have no opportunity to explore these ideas.

[@stevena139]

If I understand correctly, regarding the double slit experiment, you are saying that the reason when "single" photo goes through and is a point on the detector is because the odds of the wave hitting multiple electrons is very low. The illustrations I've seen show that when one photon gets shot out, one photon is detected. Does that mean in theory if the test ran long enough more than one point would show up simultaneously? Are the odds of the interaction with the detector 100%, or could a photon not hit an electron and thus not be detected? Is seems like testing either of these two possibilities would validate your hypothesis. This is my favorite video on the subject. Thanks for making it. Feedback if your willing to hear: I watch a lot of these types of videos and I'm just a regular guy interested in it. Most of your peers don't get frustrated and call the rest of the community morons. From my perspective comments like that do more harm to your point then good. It makes it seem like you aren't open to other possibilities because you think everyone else is stupid.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you! For your questions: keep in mind that there really is no such thing as a "single photon." It's about generating enough energy to create a single detection event. I will explain more in the follow up. Regarding "morons" - I am reserving that specifically for the "observation creates reality" group. While noisey on the Internet, I don't believe they represent the majority of serious scientists.

[@KurtVanBever]

Glad you made it Chris. I've been waiting for you. 😊

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

That doesn't sound scary at all! 😂

[@ChrisTheBrain]

I choose to take that with the best possible interpretation. 😄

[@ckimsey77]

Dude...WOW... Like, I'm trying to figure out how many people watching this has that "holy shit I get it now!" light bulb come on in he back of their brain. Your slow and detailed, well explained reasoning paired with the animations are flawless bro. Thank you and your video editor for your time in creating this genius level video. As you said, once seeing the "ring of rectangles" and how it physically works makes all the weird stuff simply vanish; and it clarifies (to me) much more so the may and why it is as it is. Top shelf content my friend.

[@ckimsey77]

Clarifies the *math...not may. I seriously hate the auto correcting bs as you try to type on a tablet/phone. Stop messing up what I'm trying to say by "fixing" it as I type and just let me f'k it up myself....stupid "smart" devices....

[@rumble1925]

Wohoo! I understand like 20% of your stuff but I love this series

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@ChaniJRandazzo]

Finally! Progress! I'm so glad this came up in my feed and I've just subbed. Thank you.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Welcome! Glad you're here.

[@rajbarathi]

Was waiting for your video… Excellent Research… Hope you get the recognition you deserve…

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you, I appreciate your support!

[@Rockyzach88]

Recognition in what? A narrative is only the first part of playing the game. If anything he's hoping to get the attention of someone the public and scientific institution hold credible if he is serious. Physics isn't UFO-ology, it's very important and any kind of hypothesis or theory should be interrogated properly. The hubris is crazy among the public who watch youtube videos and just assume they are educated and qualified to properly criticized a supposed physics presentation As a society, we are seeming to be more and more cooked by the day. Media can be a powerful tool.

[@ApexEater]

I don't think anyone is approaching this like a new religion. I think he's working on publishing and he wants the scrutiny.​@@Rockyzach88

[@dingovory]

Yes, his explanation makes intuitive sense. It's mind-blowing

[@OliviaSmith-x8h]

Thank you for this! I’ve been going down the physics rabbit hole for the last 8years. In looking at all the theories from different points of view from various science communicators, I’ve gained a conceptual understanding of the mainstream ideas about reality… let’s not get into the math. But things always seemed a little bit off conceptually. It makes sense to a point but I couldn’t put my finger on what that could be. This is the first video that’s nailed down what I’ve been trying to think but couldn’t quite put together. Really removes some of the confusion around trying to visualize the concepts. Turns out I wasn’t far off from what’s happening visually based on the videos and examples you provided. Thank you again. I can’t wait to go down the rabbit hole of your page to find new logical ways to think about existing theories.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you for sharing!

[@barrypickford1443]

Last thought before sleep was: Where is that Chris guy who’s videos I found once and loved due to their frankness? Woke and opened KZbin and wham! I get this!!!

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Now that's "spooky action at a distance!"

[@barrypickford1443]

@ loved this video Chris! I’ve been casting an extremely wide net over the last 10 years trying to grasp physics and this one really helped me out! I keep thinking lately we just need some new words to label physics interactions on the smallest scale, “spin” is one that causes issues all the time. I feel it would be more honest to give fresh label instead of appropriating other labels. Thanks again for this brilliant content!

[@burgerbobbelcher]

Faaaaaak, this just got randomly recommended to me. 1. Clarity of thought - spot on. Understanding that clarity of thought and understanding is more important than just "accepting" weird stuff as impossible to make sense of, wonderful. 2. If you learnt magic, there's a good prank for penn and teller in there.

[@sakatatmage]

What i kind of did not get is this, does the photon ring or whatever it is just disappear first time it encounters an electron, it shouldnt right? The animation showed it in a way that points to that direction so just wanted to clarify. I loved this video and i cannot wait to explore all of your videos and be sure that i will wait new videos with great excitement!

[@ChrisTheBrain]

I have a lot of questions around this, and I love it! The answer is... it's complicated. I am going to cover this one in a follow-up!

[@sakatatmage]

@@ChrisTheBrain I appreciate it very much thanks! Cant wait to finally set things right in my mind

[@noob19087]

New toys? I'll be looking forward to that! Also your other videos, they have a habit of being pretty memorable long after you've watched them. The kind vs nice video being one that I really took to heart, for example.

[@dwightperkins175]

Excellent work young man. As a Mechanical Engineer I have contemplated these subjects with great interest to find a better solution to the Mythic and Mythical (Mathic and Mathical) explanations. I don't buy the hype. Your understanding and theories are finally falsifiable and logical and I am greatly appreciative of your efforts. Thank you. I am a logical thinker and I, too, don't believe God played dice with the physics. It must be observable and logical. Your video on Spooky action at a distance is the one I am anticipating the most (entangled particles). Best wishes.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thanks so much!

[@ijannei]

I need to stop in between and thank you man for doing great science and learning work, I'm glad I found your channel, you've got a new fan!

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Awesome, thank you!

[@minorgroove1]

This is absolutely my favorite one of your Physics videos and made so much sense from beginning to end. This was quite an achievement given how much I liked your first Chapter 1-4 video. Your LIGHT IS A WAVE message was received loud and clear! I only recently discovered your channel and have been binging them due to your novel and amazing content, your ability to explain things with multiple helpful analogies, and I really love the editing notes and details your daughter is doing in the production/editing! I am so excited to learn how you will continue to add details about the rest of the standard model. I have been watching Astronomy/Physics channels for many years (though I am a PhD Geneticist as my day job) and love your detailed explanations of everything from Quantum Physics to the structure of space and time. One scientist I have been following since about 2007 is David Wiltshire from New Zealand. His Timescape Cosmology is focused on the inhomogeneous nature of matter distributions in the universe. His descriptions of gravitationally bound filamentous structures/clusters and voids where clocks run significantly differently may help to resolve the Hubble tension and the need for Dark Energy versus the lambda CDM models. His research has finally gotten some traction in the mainstream astrophysics press in 2024, and I didn't know how your 4 + 1 space/time model would fit with some of their predictions or if there were any obvious conflicts. Keep up the amazing work. Best - Greg

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thanks so much! I am fan of "Timescape" cosmology (but I hate the name). When I found out that standard cosmology just assumed an even matter distribution, I flipped out.

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

For some reason your comment made me wonder just how different the Veritasium Rainbow video would have to be if light were only a particle. Instead of inside refraction indices of the wavelengths within the raindrops, each photon would have to change to a different ROY G. BIV color in Step 2 ??? Just like with the Underpants Gnomes. 🌈

[@fiddledotgoth]

@@ChrisTheBrain I recommend "Sky Scholar" channel from the inventor of modern MRI technology for a similar debunking of gaseous sun model and Big Bang evidence...

[@LaNoireDetruit]

47:37 "...when you're playing at home" - I was so sure I'd hear a call back to the kink joke in the beginning - what a missed opportunity, Chris. Dissapointing. Jk, I really enjoy the video as usual. I love that you re-explain other science videos, that makes it very accessible. The first moment in this video that it -almost audibly- clicked for me, was when you started on the polarizer experiment. And kudos to your editor/daughter/lab partner. The animations and edits are getting better with every video. In this one I want to shout out the scratching out of numbers when changing the equation. It's satisfying and gives the viewer a very intuitive signal of what is going on. I know this might seem like a small thing but choices like this are what in sum make or break a video. Especially for complex content. one critique: At 58:15 The animation shows sth different than what you are saying in that moment (assuming I understand it correctly). I think it creates a dissonance while watching. I had to skip back to make sure I heard you correctly. (animation implies that there's an item that gets changed with every passing of a slit. maybe a little reminder that the card symbolizes a "plane of possible photons" would help here).

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thanks for the feedback! The polarizer segment was the hardest to get through in focus, detail, and tedium. Frankly, I thought I would lose everyone at that point. Your interpretation is correct. The card is not a perfect analogy, just the best we could come up with.

[@LaNoireDetruit]

@ Thanks for confirming. I didn't get lost at all - which obviously is not representative in any way - but it's one viewer at least ;) I can't wait to see what you do to the rest of the particles in the next one.

[@petershelton7367]

Thank you I am beginning to understand what I don’t understand is why nobody else is making these important distinctions about light and quantum physics understood. It seems like a conspiracy to mystify reality. Thank you so much for

[@andrewpaulhart]

@@petershelton7367 or he doesn’t know what he is talking about

[@lindsayweir4931]

the treatments that are actually in agreement with experiment are usually found in textbooks, there are thousands of great ones! i don't know why you think nobody does this kind of thing

[@chahale8530]

@@petershelton7367 Many people have fallen into a methodological misconception in science, thereby restricting themselves.

[@Susandwyer]

Wow. Your words are very easy to simply believe without question, I think because they are arranged in such a way to easily make sense of them. I love it, but will need to watch it again. My formal education went as far as high school, and I believe I understand everything you just said. Thank you. It's the first time I've encountered your stuff.

[@lepidoptera9337]

If you were paying attention in high school, then you would know that he is full of it. ;-)

[@shin_0b_i]

If a photon is the measurement of the interference pattern produced by two (or more) opposing EM fields, then by necessity, an electron is the measurement of of the interference pattern produced by the the interaction of the magnetic and electrostatic fields (which are the two component of electricity itself). Sub atomic particles are a conceptual model used to understand the oscillatory nature of pulsating energy.

[@LuisAldamiz]

A photon is the interaction between an EM wave and an electron (or other spin 1/2 particle), a photon is the so-called "observer effect", which is something electrons do rather than EM waves as such. You emit a "photon" by letting an electron fall from an excited to a base state, you detect a "photon" by letting an electron get excited by the appropiate kind of EM wave (photoelectric effect). Particles (understood as "dots" rather than as "small parts", which is what "particle" actually means, "corpuscle", i.e. "small body", was also used in the past) may be a "conceptual model" but it's a model that confuses rather than explains.

[@shin_0b_i]

@LuisAldamiz Electrons can be visualized as standing wave interference patterns between the electrostatic and magnetic fields emanating from the nucleus, which itself is a torsion of the the sub-quantum base medium, i.e. the fabric of reality.

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@shin_0b_i - Apparently there is no real magnetic field, only a relativistic effect of the electric field as charges move. In any case what you say can't explain ions, including naked protons or other nuclei: electrons would be auto-generated and that's not what we observe. IMHO at the very least the electron and the up quark, both of which are indefinitely stable, must be "fundamental", whatever that means ultimately. All the rest... who knows? Maybe gluons are "colored photons", and this "coloring" may be caused by the quarks, maybe down quark are veritably a fusion of up quark and electron (and some extra energy we call "neutrino"), maybe the W/Z bosons don't really exist as such, etc. Take all these hints with great doses of salt and pepper because it's just my wild speculations, food for thought. But what I mean is that photon (EM wave field), quark up and electron seem quite fundamental.

[@shin_0b_i]

@LuisAldamiz Check out the work of Eric Dollard, he's the only guys (I know of) who actually physically recreated all of Tesla's work and has mathematical formulations based off the engineering principles. And in the words of Tesla (who gave us electrical engineering as we know it) - "Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists." Edit: Also the work of Oleg Jefimenko, if you're more inclined towards traditional diff calculus

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@shin_0b_i - Check out Kathy Loves Physics channel on Tesla and Westinghouse. The channel seems to have gone inactive in the last year or so but she produced many magnificent videos on the history of physics and its most relevant characters. She dismounts many of the myths circulating about Tesla: he made some contributions, some mistakes and he was definitely not the one the one to develop electrical engineering single-handedly; there were several actors but maybe Westinghouse (whose relation with Tesla was good, contrary to legend) was the main one.

[@mbahismu4156]

Best video I've ever watch about light. Not for the show [hahaha... 😅], but the content 👍. You've answer a lot of my confusion, questions and doubts of things in this topic, in a single (long, but worth to watch) video. Thank you. 🤝

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@breezyx976]

I don't get the idea that light doesn't have entanglement. It seems like the photon is a wave that goes in all directions (in a circle at least), but when it interacts with an electron the entire wave is affected near-instantaneously, even the part of the wave that was going in the opposite direction. This implies that the photon is at least entangled with itself, as it communicates its "absorption" faster than light to the rest of itself. And if it can be entangled with itself, then it could be entangled with other photons, hence quantum computing. I also heard that entanglement is not necessarily the same as faster-than-light communication, as it cannot transfer useful information. i.e. it can only collapse the photon wave, not interact with any particles. When entangled with other particles, observing one collapses the other but does not actually communicate any useful information, it simply sets the unobserved one to be the opposite of the observed one. Therefore it doesn't violate the cosmic speed limit. Great video, you deserve way more subscribers!

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Hey, great thoughts! You know, I went through many of these considerations when making this. I put it this way: Is the EM wave a bubble or a tide? Does it "pop" with interaction, or does it hit the rock and rest keeps going? The answer was... NEITHER! I figured this out with Faraday Cage experiments that took months but then never actually made it into the video. The EM waves don't pop or continue, they represent an imbalance. Whatever is balanced, cancels out, whatever isn't continues... BUT only within rules of locality. It's going to have to be a follow-up video...

[@LuisAldamiz]

Entanglement needs faster than c communication... if we accept that the Bell's inequalities experiment says what is usually interpreted to say: that there are no hidden variables. However at least Maudin (a very interesting philosopher of science) has challenged that: he says that even Bell himself did not believe that his experiment demonstrated that. So hidden variables is probably the answer rather (which is what you're saying, I believe).

[@jbon123]

but the photon isn't a thing here, the name refers to the intangible quanta energy that propagated along vectors through jigglin electrons like dominos, as i heard it...

[@balabuyew]

@@ChrisTheBrain How spread wave can, as you say, "cancels out"? This video title is a lie (as always), you didn't explain wave-particle duality! More to consider: what is generally propagates is not a wave of a single "photon", but a sum of waves from many-many sources, which are, because of summing, looses their identities.

[@jimgraham6722]

I think about in terms of solitons. An acoustic soliton such as a smoke ring is a special acoustic wave in the air field. Its energy is confined, it has velocity, size and direction in air, but other than that it is simply an acoustic wave, a series of rarefactions and compressions.

[@jaankuus3063]

To have a wave, you must have a medium for that wave. Would you consider the strong nuclear force the same as the electromagnetic force?

[@pengowray]

Great video. My vote for the next one is a whole video purely on Bell's theorem. It's always the most difficult concept to follow unless there's an expanded explanation with a worked-through example but also it can be understood without difficult equations, and it's what I'd find (as a layman) the most compelling to fortify your (or your editor's) ideas/interpretation. It's something I've watched a bunch of videos on over the years and I feel like I can only ever grasp it for a short time before I lose it again. Removing probabilities from it would be a profound shift. As a general note, to reduce corrections/clarifications (though there might be none needed for this video, at least there isn't any so far) I'd recommend considering what 3b1b and others do which is to cultivate a smaller crowd of dedicated 'beta' viewers (hopefully smarter than myself) whether through a patreon, a discord server, or a newsletter etc, to watch pre-release versions of the videos Going to have to watch this one again and looking forward to future vids. (Also, by the way, you've accidentally put the same Bell's video link twice in the notes)

[@roberteakin2538]

Your going in the right direction. In 2000 I wrote a white paper, completed in 2006, with a few later additions (Proofs) called "Vacuum Theory." ( Subtitled as "The age of Time" It covered the light is only ever a wave point as well as many others.Thought processes are contaminated with earlier errors still accepted as "Law". You are still operating on some of these but are headed in the right direction to spot and break them. I wish you luck on this. When Dr Bose came up with Condensate theory in 1920 he met up with professor Einstein (Mainly because Einstein had become the stamp of approval.) His theory was validated in the late 1980's with the first Condensate at 187 billionths of a degree above Absolute 0. 3 years later, in a Condensate, it was demonstrated that light was slowed down going through a Condensate. She measured the light at about 15 MPH. More recently a Professor cooled his Condensate down to 38 peko kelvin above Absolute zero, did the light speed measurement and came up with a speed of, compared with the length of a 100 MM cigarette, about i minute for that for that approximately 4 inch length. Among prior theories these should have annihilated is "Singularity in a Black hole" theory, (As well as a slew of others.) Can you figure out how this derailed Singularity theory? I'll let you know if you came up with the right answer. Let me know.

[@mfsamuel]

I started this video right when it posted and was not able to watch all the way until now. I caught the initial hook that photons don't exist and had convinced myself you were correct before I even got back here to finish this video. Great way to challenge the fundamentals to keep us moving forward. I you have a chance to look up ring theory. I believe it would fit nicely with this concept, and reinforces the field based view of QED.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thanks so much!

[@Djoukelinton]

Thank you so much for making this video. Thinking about all the quantum crazyness, I had the intuition and finally convinced myself quantum effects had to have a ring-link (or wave) behaviour to explain all the experiments (espacially the ones involving entenglement). But I was missing the geometric interaction part for it to makes sense. Very good job !

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you!

[@shaunmodipane1]

28:30 I'll say the reason why we don't see photons as rings it because how we are introduced to then when studying Maxwell's equations. We are introduced to photons as zero source solutions which are the elongated images we all have. So now we use the elongated image for every photon interaction eventhough it applies to specific conditions. Hello Editor, I hope you are well. I really enjoyed your music video from the other video. I hope to see more of it.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Great point!

[@RTOOD2]

KZbin stopped recominding your channel and it doesnt even show the icon for when you have new vides on your channel, your doing something right! I love your videos!

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Hmmmm....

[@Chazz8Tube]

I learned a new way of thinking about the proton today. Thank you very much. Very hard to break the particle bias. I watched the whole video and in normal speed which is unusual for me.

[@KristopherNorton-x1g]

Omg you are my favorite! That cartoon in the middle with the Lazer measuring electrons and the runners and rubber balls 😂😂😂😂. Pure gold.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😄

[@busimagen]

4 year old : KZbin : Here, watch this video on Wave-Particle Duality. Chris : How the hell did you get here? Everyone: Chaos: LOL

[@ChrisTheBrain]

🤣

[@OMDMIntl]

This is good stuff! I can imagine all the push-back you’ll get from all the establishment. Oh the beauty of KZbin. In the meantime , keep building evidence for the case.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you!

[@OMDMIntl]

I am interested in supporting your concept with research and proofs.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

What did you have in mind?

[@OMDMIntl]

Use an “grated” electron pulse to figure out the movement of the electron.

[@MichaelWSGrimm]

Chris, thank you again for the very educational video. As always, the depth you go detailing things and making sure you have a good foundation to present to your viewers so its cohesive is amazing. Keep up the good work.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you!

[@Kawobi]

I’ve never understood what all the fuss about the three polarizers was, as I always thought the light as getting skewed at each step, exactly as you describe. Always thought I missed a point or something. Thanks for the great content.

[@ponzi-d4k]

That`s the best explanation of light I've ever heard. Thank you for sharing that. The Action Lab guy also has a video of how a wave can produce what we observe as electrons.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Glad you liked it! Action Lab is a great channel! 😊

[@KurtVanBever]

This was very insightful. A huge thanks to you and your team for putting in the tremendous effort. I was wondering, could we assume that when it comes down to it, ALL elementary particles can be interpreted in this way?

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thanks, I caution at the end that this is JUST the photon. There are "similar" explanations for the rest, but there are some differences as well. We will get there. 😉

[@SpecialEDy]

This is exactly how I've always thought of light since I learned it was the emission of an electron changing energy level. The part that still blows my mind is the idea that a photon is predestined or locked into a target electron the moment it is emitted. Like, light from distant stars hitting us and light being the speed of causality, a photon striking the detector on JWST from billions of light years away may as well have been locked onto that target and predecided from the moment it was generated.

[@statues3983]

i have a problem with a ripple idea going out into space to the far sides of the universe. The photon ripple then hits an electron at one end of the universe and simultaneously the other side of the ripple at the other side of the universe 'knows' that it is no longer a complete photon ripple and disappears... communicating an idea to the opposite end of the universe faster than the speed of light, in fact simultaneously...

[@GameModder]

Yeah any "local" interpretations of quantum mechanics turns out to be much worse than non-locality of quantum wave function collapse

[@thoriummarcell403]

It's awesome to see that someone understands the nature of EM waves, able and willing to explain... Incredibly well. Thanks. Keep up. (will have a question about high energy ~450 keV neutral D2 molecular beam in LiD, LiT or Be containing molecular - insulating - compounds - incredible low stopping power and significant consequences - exact stopping power welcome - and First Born approximation... but next time). 👍

[@drwsld]

I have a playlist on my channel where I say (1), (1/4), and (1/27) are the 1D, 2D, 3D mass gaps for Yang Mills and the x and y of massless photons and their path functions f(x) and f(y) for example. I have math from Edward Witten supporting it. Yoshio Koide's Formula comparing electrons, muons, taus and their masses has that (2/3) quantized mass constant. And when using my mass gaps, it perfectly describes how many electrons are permitted per energy level. (2/3)/(1)=2/3 leptons are electrons in the first energy level. The max amount of electrons in energy level 1 is 2. (2/3)/(1/4)=8/3 leptons are electrons in the 2nd energy level. The max amount of electrons in the 2nd energy level is 8. (2/3)/(1/27) = 18 leptons are electrons in the 3rd energy level. I even have a chart and several examples on my channel how 0.037 (close to 1/27) is a constant in our universe and a studied black hole mass gap. I think these three mass gap rates are quantum gravity speeds, scalar universal constants. I got these 3 rates from what I believe to be a prototypical P=NP algorithm and I get clowned from the theory, but it physically makes sense. I think photons being these massless waves that combine with quantum gravity to produce light seems to be exactly what you are talking about. Quantum gravity in my theory is not only thermodynamics but the scalar speed of spacetime's perturbation, thus the speed of light itself. Waves are like the ultimate symmetry right? Anyways hope you read this comments I've been a sub for a while and our theories and explanations are very much in the same ballpark despite you being more professional. Thanks for making these videos

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thanks! I do promise that Yang will get attention here soon.. 😉

[@drwsld]

​@@ChrisTheBrain Thanks for your response man, I even have a video with the EM rings I believe you are talking about. And how Riemann Zeta Function's 1/2 critical strip might play a role in creating these mass gaps and that these EM rings might play a role!

[@ChrisTheBrain]

I'll check it out!

[@GarrickDitlefsen]

What makes some "detectors" or "non-conscious observer systems" cause reactions through measurements as opposed to all of the other background detectors. I get your analogy with the pellet gun and the racer, but wouldn't there be so many detectors measuring with pellets that it would seem like the runner was in the middle of a sea of pellets at every instance? I'm just trying to clarify and understand how certain detections and measurements affect the wave more than other background systems. Sorry if you covered these but I was also curious how this relates to some of the other double slit experiments you mentioned but I think glossed over. I've been curious about the "delayed observer," " quantum eraser," and "quantum freezing" effects that detections and measurements have been observed with. If the entirety of the background of universal detectors, like perhaps the very air atoms around the runner or whatever, is interacting, detecting and measuing, how might these constant "observations" limit the range or development of potentials through quantum freezing or effect continuity and causality through a hypothetical quantum eraser? Sorry if I'm not making sense or misapplying concepts, just seeking a better understanding

[@RiverReeves23]

Excellent video Chris. Can you please do a video about how this model will predict the behaviour of quantum computers as I honestly think quantum computing is VERY similar to the money pit that is string theory. I think that qbits are just a regression in computation, moving back from digital back to analogue through the use of more than 2 discrete states (0 and 1) and therefore decreasing signal to noise ratio and thus requiring very low temperatures and increasing energy requirements (both inefficient).

[@LuisAldamiz]

Paraphrasing Einstein: Mathematics does not play dice... or more exactly only does in probability theory, all the rest is straightforward. Quantum computing and fusion energy are clearly two elaborate scams of the kind Andersen described in The Emperor's New Clothes. There may be others like the promises of Artificial Intelligence or the demand of larger particle accelerators but these are at least partly justified.

[@daruekeller]

brilliant. you've addressed so many questions I never see addressed. my gut agrees 100% 😅 thank you. I hope some clear thinking like this can break through the accumulated error.

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thanks so much!

[@Rockyzach88]

Just so people know, there is a history of "photons don't exist". Read history including science history. It really helps in understanding context of modern day physics or divergent "theories". In fact, math and science history is really important to understanding both fields in general. History is something we've really dropped the ball on as a society. When you learn history in k-12 you mostly learn about wars. Understanding history is VERY empowering.

[@1495978707]

Well... It also brings the curse of knowledge. Seeing how things are going to go before most other people and being unable to stop it when it's bad

[@sgt345]

Me being "not quite on topic", but in a parallel thought about history: I have a sciences background and I was brought up to believe that the "pure sciences" were the most important subjects of all. I still believe they are very important, but seeing how the world is steadily sliding into chaos, I started learning the History of our world, to understand how and why this is happening. My views have shifted in the past year, and today I believe that History is the most important subject of all. I believe that if people knew more about History (encompassing every aspect: the history of our nations, the history of the sciences, etc), the populations of the world would be more empowered, and we would not have let the world be in the state it is in right now. We would not continue to let the current trajectory of our world take us down this path we find ourselves on, at this moment in time.

[@BrainConduit123]

Question. I probably missed something during your explanation of the detector in the double slit, but when the light wave interacts with an electron and a new EM wave is created, shouldn’t that new wave interact with the original wave from the other slit, thus causing an interference pattern?

[@ChrisTheBrain]

The two electrons oscillate inversely to each other. Backward propagation typically cancels out.

[@oflameo8927]

I got the recommendation, somehow. It is probably because I was already subscribed.

[@windfoil1000]

I stumbled upon this and enjoyed it enough to watch the whole thing (in two sessions). Whether it's correct or not, your description of light is the most comprehensible, for me, that I've seen. Subscribed, thanks.

[@theblankchannel1752]

Abstract This thesis proposes a conceptual framework in which all known physical entities-matter, energy, space, and time-are manifestations of a single, or tightly coupled set of, fundamental fields. Particles such as electrons or photons are understood as localized or traveling excitations of these fields rather than standalone objects. Gravity, in turn, is regarded not as an independent force mediated by a hypothetical graviton, but rather as the macroscopic geometric outcome of energy concentrations within these fields. The apparent probabilistic nature of quantum events is herein interpreted as an emergent phenomenon arising from the immense complexity of field interactions, rather than a fundamental indeterminism. Within this view, quantum entanglement does not imply superluminal communication or mystical “spooky action,” but reflects the holistic nature of a shared wavefunction. While consistent with established experimental data, the present approach challenges the necessity of a separate gravitational quantum field and offers an alternative framework for unifying quantum mechanics and spacetime geometry.

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1. Introduction The Standard Model and General Relativity together form our most successful descriptions of physical reality. However, bridging these two theories remains elusive, particularly when attempting to quantize gravity. Conventional approaches introduce a spin-2 quantum field (gravitons) to mediate gravitational interactions, yet so far, no direct empirical evidence supports these putative particles. Meanwhile, quantum mechanics retains a deeply probabilistic formalism, leading many to conclude that nature is intrinsically random. In response, various interpretations of quantum theory have sought to explain or eliminate the notion of wavefunction “collapse.” Likewise, there are geometric approaches to gravity (inspired by Einstein’s General Relativity) that question the status of gravity as a force akin to electromagnetism or the strong interaction. This thesis synthesizes these lines of thought into a broader conceptual model: everything is field, and “particles” are ephemeral excitations-there is no separate gravitational field, and quantum randomness may be an artifact of practical uncomputability rather than fundamental chance.

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2. The Proposed Field Interpretation 2.1 A Unified Field Single (or Strongly Coupled) Field Hypothesis: Instead of multiple distinct quantum fields, one can conceptualize an overarching field whose various modes of excitation manifest as different particle species. This assumption aligns with many “theory of everything” pursuits, though it remains a conceptual standpoint without a definitive mathematical unification. Localizations as Energy Packets: Matter (e.g., electrons, quarks) arises when field excitations become stable or semi-stable under certain interactions, forming localized “regions” of energy density. 2.2 Photons and Other Particles as Information Waves Photons Not as Standalone Objects: Photons are treated as perturbations or “signals” (information packets) within the electromagnetic aspect of the unified field. Their apparently discrete detection events reflect localized interaction processes rather than independent particles traveling through space. No Fundamental Collapse: Measurement registers an interaction event-an energy transfer that localizes part of the wavefunction-rather than “collapsing” a wave. The wave-like nature persists in principle, continually interfering and spreading.

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2.3 Gravity as Geometry Geometric Emergence: General Relativity has successfully described gravity as a curvature of spacetime tied to mass-energy distributions. In this thesis, the same principle is maintained but without introducing a separate gravitational quantum field. Instead, geometry is seen as a large-scale, emergent property of how the unified field arranges its energy. No Graviton Necessity: On microscopic scales, gravitational effects are exceedingly weak compared to other interactions; hence, they remain largely unquantized in everyday observations. The framework here posits that quantizing gravity may be unnecessary if it is merely the macroscopic geometry of the fundamental field. 2.4 Determinism vs. Probability Deterministic Evolution: The wavefunction (or field state) follows a deterministic evolution law (akin to Schrödinger’s equation in standard QM) but is so overwhelmingly complex and globally connected that exact prediction becomes intractable. Emergent Probabilities: Apparent randomness is interpreted as epistemic-stemming from the observer’s partial knowledge-rather than ontologically fundamental. This position allows for a superdeterministic or strongly contextual interpretation of Bell-type experiments, consistent with empirical data yet devoid of “true” randomness.

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2.5 Entanglement as Holistic State Nonlocal but No Superluminal Signaling: Two “entangled particles” are not separate, self-contained entities but interdependent excitations of a shared, holistic wavefunction. When one is measured, the other’s properties become known instantly, not via faster-than-light influence but via the unity of the underlying state. Information and Causality: Because no usable information is transmitted faster than , this holistic interdependence does not violate special relativity’s principle of causal structure.

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3. Implications for Quantum Gravity This unified field viewpoint suggests that searching for a graviton may be misguided. Instead, one might explore how the field’s curvature at large scales emerges from aggregated energy distributions, while at small scales, gravitational effects remain negligible. If successful, such a perspective could circumvent paradoxes in canonical quantum gravity approaches and yield new insight into phenomena like black holes, cosmological singularities, and the origin of spacetime itself.

[@wholonomics9380]

I am just working on some papers on very advanced physics directly addressing some of the issues you bring up, listening to you in the background. You are so correct, way more advanced and insightful then any physicist I've listened to on KZbin though there are some good ones. The ability to be inductively intuitive is the foundation of great physics. Plus plus my extremely awake friend!

[@theoschijf8155]

Finally, an approach that make sense. For 100 years the experts have accepted what could not be true. Still they managed to explain much of what is going on. But today they realize that they do not understand qm at all. Your approach may be the beginning of a new understanding. Maybe soon we will understand qm after all. Feinman would be proud!

[@timlong4256]

Feinman diagrams popularized the photon, describing the interaction between oppositely charged matter to produce the energetic photon.

[@chahale8530]

agree, exploration in any possible direction should be encouraged. The spirit of science is freedom-do not constrain your own thoughts beforehand.

[@simonjones5607]

I’ve been watching KZbin videos on the double split experiment and never been satisfied with any of the explanations. Your video made total sense, in fact I like all your videos. I’m looking forward to how you explain superposition for other particles because it surely exists, if not how do you explain how quantum computers work? Thank you, ignore the ignorant and please carry on the brilliant work.

[@sapiosuicide1552]

Very nice. Physicists need to learn about being intellectually humble with their theories. Having an alternate explanation of poorly understood phenomena is 100% of the time good for science

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you!

[@nihlify]

Not if the new explanation creates new questions the previous theory answered and you assume you're still right

[@sapiosuicide1552]

@@nihlify When it comes to cementing a new theory as established fact in peer reviewed journals, yes, it should rigorously explain all phenomena of all existing theories and explain new things For someone giving their independent cutting edge ideas publicly on a platform like KZbin, it's OK for it to not be absolutely perfect and better than all theories in every single aspect instantly. It's called being creative and exploring possibilities

[@rossfam2069]

I have been watching videos on physics, TOE, standard model, etc for years. Chris is my favorite.

[@elementelement8304]

Hello Sir, nice to see you, all the best this year!

[@ChrisTheBrain]

Thank you!

[@realzath]

I swear I never believed light is a particle or a mixture. I just couldn't do it in my brain. Now the "it's a ring" or a plane... that is amazing and makes sense.

[@chahale8530]

it is not a ring, do you think sound wave or water wave is a ring

[@realzath]

@@chahale8530 Plane, I corrected it. Well if it comes from an up and down movement it makes sense to be a plane. I can also imagine, if it goes up and down, that it could look like a photon on the "poles" with a wave pushing and pulling ... just letting my mind imagine things ^^ ...