.Explaining
Light, Illumination and Vision
Author:
Miles Pelton
Abstract:
This
is an explanation of scientific phenomena reveled through accidental
observation in a manner similar to the revelation in which the
relationship between electricity and magnetism was revealed to Hans
Christian Oersted (1777 – 1851). This demonstration reveals new
understanding regarding light, illumination and vision that has the
potential to start a new era in technological advancements just as
did the Oersted revelation. At the same time it reveals that the
current explanation of the behavior of these phenomena is flawed.
Introduction:
The
phenomenon was revealed when a lighted candle bathed in sunlight was
observed to cast a shadow on a backdrop as illustrated in this
picture. The candle including the wick casts a clear shadow but the
flame of the candle does not even though the flame is clearly
visible. Puzzled by the apparent contradiction with current
explanation of the behavior of light and vision a closer look was
given to the observed phenomenon. Clearly the sunlight in the form
of photons passed through the flame without being blocked by matter
so did not cast a shadow. Yet, the impression of the backdrop,
currently explained as radiating photons does not pass through the
flame. The backdrop cannot be seen through the flame.
Discussion:
The
observed phenomenon brought realization that radiating photons are
not light, they do not produce illumination. Photons carry the
energy that produces light (and heat and ionization) but are not
themselves light. When the passage of photons is blocked by matter
the energy carried by the photons is released and the energy
released produces illumination. The candle and the backdrop blocks
the radiating photons, they release the energy they carry and the
matter upon which impacted, is illuminated. The candle blocks the
radiating photons causing a shadow to be cast on the backdrop. The
flame does not block the sunlight’s radiating photons so no shadow
and the photons proceed to deposit the energy they carry onto the
backdrop.
The
observed phenomenon brought further realization. Photons are not the
instrument that carries vision as currently explained. If vision
involved the radiation of photons then the backdrop image would have
passed through the flame as did the sunlight. Clearly, photons are
not an instrument in vision. That leaves several open questions;
what is it that is seen as the flame? And, since heat is involved,
what is the mechanism by which photons produce heat. . Clearly there
is another form of energy that drives vision and separate form of
energy that drives heat.
The
flame of the candle is a product of the combustion that takes place
with a lighted candle. The flame is not matter illuminated by the
photons radiated as sunlight. Combustion is a process where the
energy bond that bind atoms are fragmented releasing the photons
that provided the binding force. Some of the released photons
radiate free of the candle atmosphere to illuminate distant matter.
Some photons impact molecules in the atmosphere surrounding the
candle wick and release the energy they carry. When the molecule is
oxygen the heat producing energy component causes the oxygen
molecule bonds to break, thereby releasing more photons to impact
and produce more heat culminating in a “chain reaction” or
otherwise known as combustion.
Clearly,
the phenomenon associated with a burning candle involves two forms
of energy not addressed by current explanation. One form produces
illumination and vision while the other form produces the effect
called heat. (For an explanation of the heat process
http://milestone26.blogspot.com/2013/09/defining-heat-post-atomic-era.html
) The heat released as a product of combustion is concentrated
around the wick and being less dense than the surrounding air,
rises. Since it has been established that heat and photons are not
visible and that the flame is not matter it must be assumed the
flame is the form of energy that produces vision and illumination.
This
adds credence to the concept of elementary particles that are a
composite of three forms of fundamental energy that are incorporated
into forming photons. One form attracts like attraction energy
charges. A second form repels like repelling energy charges and a
third form establishes an affinity between the attraction and the
repelling energy charges. Recognizing that it is the attraction
energy charge that produces heat as explained by the referenced
blog, and that the repelling energy charge is expended through
radiation and ionization that leaves the affinity charge as the
producer of illumination and vision. That conclusion is supported
with the explanation for the candle flame.
The
combustion reaction of the candle releases a heavy concentration of
photons many of which impact surrounding air molecules so that the
area surrounding the candle combustion is saturated with affinity
energy. With insufficient matter available to be illuminated the
freed affinity energy is attracted to the attraction energy existing
as heat and is visible as a glow. Being attracted to the rising heat
the glow appears to be rising as well but the concentration of
affinity energy, therefore the glow dissipates as the heat energy
dissipates.
Conclusion:
The
current explanation for light, illumination and vision is flawed. As
demonstrated the radiation of photons is a separate specific function
independent of illumination and vision. They are common only from the
aspect that photons are carriers of three fundamental forms of energy
one of which produces illumination and vision where eyes are the
instrument for observing the behavior of that form of fundamental
energy that produces illumination and vision.
