Physics
One of the group's working tools are
optical
tweezers, which exploit quasimechanical properties of photons. Also,
single molecules are investigated, which may generate true single
photons.
Thus interest in "What is a
photon" in the view of modern experiments came up, and
on how is this photon is related to other elementary
particles. The main statements are:
i) The electron mass melectron = 511 keV/c2 can be calculated
as solution of a modified Schrödinger equation,
where the elementary charge is replaced by the Planck charge e / SQRT alpha. Then,
the lowest energy solution is 2 * 13,6 eV (the Rydberg
energy or ionization energy of the hydrogen atom) / alpha2 =
511 keV
ii) Except the proton, the masses
of a l
l
other hadrons with lifetimes
above 10-24 sec can be calculated as m = Z * melectron
/ alpha = Z * m0, where alpha is the fine structure
constant. The
unprecedented accuracy is often better than 2 %, in most cases even
better than 1 %.
iii) The electron mass, the proton
mass, m0 of ii) and a so far missing mass mx
constitute a quadruplet of particles which can be exactly calculated
solely by using the Rydberg energy, the fine structure constant alpha
and ß = mproton / melectron. mx
turns out to be 128,7 GeV/c2, well in the mass range
where the Higgs boson is expected.
iv) When the specific Planck charge e /
(mPlanck SQRT alpha) is assigned to any mass, gravitation
can be expressed as a subclass of Coulomb interaction. Then,
gravitative repulsion does become possible. This may help understanding
dark energy.
v) A model of the photon, which
assumes that two opposite Planck charges cause its oscillations, correctly predicts
that the photons energy is hv, its spin is 1 and its linear dimension
is wavelength / 2pi.
vi) Bell inequalities can be
violated classically. Nonlocality is not yet proven. Einstein Podolsky
and Rosen are still right
vii) The fine structure constant alpha is relectron * melectron
, the gravitation factor gamma is relectron / mproton
where relectron is the classical electron radius
expressed in Planck radii , melectron and mprotonare corresponding representations.