You won’t find this in the Physics books. That’s a fact that begs a question, to be sure. If energy underlies most everything, including matter, why is that matter of knowledge never even a question asked?
Well, I’m asking it, and in lieu of physics catching up with me, I’ll try to answer it as well. What does oscillate mean? Webster’s says it’s “moving back and forth at a regular speed”. So, when we say photons oscillate, I’d guess we mean the same thing. This fits nicely with the uber-mechanical view of the universe, where perturbations of the aether spawn all that exists in both force and matter.
A potential bombshell: longitudinal waves (really impulses) might be the reason for transverse EM waves (i.e. regular old radio, microwave and laser waves). The reason I say this might be true is because the aether, in most conceptualized forms, would not directly support transverse propagation with its natural structure. Its structure would need modification to present a medium boundary, which then could supply the needed “rails” to enclose an oscillation.
As a longitudinal wave begins to perturb the aether, it could create medium boundaries based on the size and shape of the impinging wave. These boundaries would follow the flow of the longitudinal wave through the aether, providing reflection points (really, a cylindrical shield comprised of the boundary discontinuity) within which the transverse oscillation could occur.
So, photons naturally interact with the aether in a longitudinal way. Only subsequently do transverse oscillations happen. A photon, propagating through the aether longitudinally, creates a waveguide as it goes, allowing the transverse oscillation to come along for the ride.
An impedance discontinuity reflects energy. An impedance discontinuity is really an aether discontinuity, or aether medium boundary of changing density. This explains a long laundry list of mysteries, such as the reflection of waves from the ends of off-resonant antennas, or the reason that two beams of energy, crossing in a plasma, can create (reflect) onto a new beam of energy with a different vector.
The interaction of atoms with energy could easily be visualized to work the same way. Few people have asked for a resolution to the conundrum of gargantuan light wavelengths, relative to the ability that atoms (much smaller in size) have to absorb them. The ability to create antennas and waveguides in the aether might mean that atoms have “antennas” as well, allowing for the grabbing of photons with orders of magnitude higher interaction geometries.
The antennas really resolve to the mechanical realm, and we can consider experimental evidence where mechanical membranes can enjoin two beams of energy, even when one is microwave and the other is a light laser. All that is needed is that the membrane be big enough to capture both wavelengths. So, the antenna is like the membrane, in that it’s all about the medium boundaries that exist in the aether, or are created in the aether. The electrical spawns from the mechanical, or the reverse of that process. This is as it seems to me, ATM. Stay tuned …
Note: the author is a writer on technical subjects in some areas, of novels, and of other literature, but does not have any formal credentials related to the medical field, or in physics. Thus, this all constitutes an opinion of what might be possible, based on his own hobby-level knowledge quests.
Quantum Extinction 