Research Discussion Page

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1. Comments, suggestions and questions

There are no derivations of the deviations from Maxwell's equations. (CS: correct; this does not seem possible)

In regard to the maintenance of photon shape after propagation: http://www.physorg.com/news88439430.html (CS: indeed, experimentally the light pulse shape is conserved; the issue in the preprint is to check that this is also the case in the model.)

If the hypothesis that the graviton is a pair of photons is true, would the graviton exhibit the same self-scattering properties as the single photon? (CS: well, first, I would say that the graviton is *not* a pair of photons; it only looks somewhat like such a pair. Related to this is the second point: the scattering behaviour is very different, as gravitons get scattered in the vacuum all the time, whereas photons don't.)

2. Mistakes

The derivation of Coulomb's law is done in words only. (CS: yes; the field is an average effect, analogous to pressure. But there is no mistake.)

The derivations of Maxwell's equations are done with words only. (CS: yes; but the derivations are correct nevertheless.)

Photons that "split" while passing double slits give the wrong behaviour when detected? (CS: No, a detector will still detected only whole photons, and the detection behaviour that comes up is the measured one.)

The estimation of the fine structure constant is based on the assumption that only part of the virtual photons emitted by a charge reach a second charge. This is wrong: in the extended entity model, all virtual photons reach the other charge. (CS: yes, this is a mistake in the manuscript; the fine structure constant cannot be estimated that simply. The proper calculation needs to take into account that the virtual photons exchanged along direct, "short" field lines have a larger effect than those exchanged along "long" field lines.)