- 21 Feb 2018 18:32
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Light (or more specifically photons) have an unusual property. It has no mass so is only identifiable once it interacts with matter or forces. Its speed remains fixed until such interactions as well.
If we consider spacetime a fabric that expands, matter would not attach to its surface. Instead it would glide on it and imprint it's presence as it did (creating gravity). Light is different. Light instead would remain attached to that fabric. It would bend around matter like spacetime. Light also expands. Light visibility expands in all directions at the speed of light within its original point of origin. The size of the visible light of 'say a sun' (perception) would shrink in size the further you are away from the source of the light, but the transfer energy under Newtons laws cannot diminish. So light photon waves might weaken as it expands but the waves energy it has must remain fixed due to this law.
So now we have got that out of the way, could it be possible that light is indeed spacetime? Light seems to have all the properties of spacetime. It expands. It has no mass. Without vision it has no identifiable properties. Gravity distorts it and If you travelled at its speed, time would stop. The only difference is how it interacts with matter. And that is because it is energy. So could it be possible that light is nothing more than spacetime that is carrying energy? Could it be no different to the emptyness of space but that it carrys electromagnetic radiation? Radiation that until it interacts with matter it cannot pass on so remains traceable until it does. If that was the case, once light does pass on that energy wouldn't it just return to its spacetime appearence and become emptiness again? And if that was the case, wouldn't that just make light just energy time? And that would mean that light is indeed spacetime.
If we consider spacetime a fabric that expands, matter would not attach to its surface. Instead it would glide on it and imprint it's presence as it did (creating gravity). Light is different. Light instead would remain attached to that fabric. It would bend around matter like spacetime. Light also expands. Light visibility expands in all directions at the speed of light within its original point of origin. The size of the visible light of 'say a sun' (perception) would shrink in size the further you are away from the source of the light, but the transfer energy under Newtons laws cannot diminish. So light photon waves might weaken as it expands but the waves energy it has must remain fixed due to this law.
So now we have got that out of the way, could it be possible that light is indeed spacetime? Light seems to have all the properties of spacetime. It expands. It has no mass. Without vision it has no identifiable properties. Gravity distorts it and If you travelled at its speed, time would stop. The only difference is how it interacts with matter. And that is because it is energy. So could it be possible that light is nothing more than spacetime that is carrying energy? Could it be no different to the emptyness of space but that it carrys electromagnetic radiation? Radiation that until it interacts with matter it cannot pass on so remains traceable until it does. If that was the case, once light does pass on that energy wouldn't it just return to its spacetime appearence and become emptiness again? And if that was the case, wouldn't that just make light just energy time? And that would mean that light is indeed spacetime.