A photon model based upon chaos produced by static, Schwinger-level electric field nonlinearities that satisfies all first-order properties

TL;DR

This paper proposes a photon model based on chaos induced by nonlinear electric field interactions, explaining photon properties and interactions through a dynamic, probabilistic framework involving vacuum charge rings and nonlinear chaos.

Contribution

It introduces a novel photon model rooted in chaos theory and nonlinear electric field interactions, satisfying all first-order photon properties and explaining photon stability and interactions.

Findings

Photon properties like zero rest mass and stability are explained by a localizable charge-field ensemble.

A small attractive force between near-neighbor photons with antiparallel polarization is identified.

The model describes photon creation and propagation as resulting from nonlinear chaos in atomic fields.

Abstract

In this work we postulate that Schwinger's threshold for a dynamic electric field intensity to induce spatial nonlinearity is a special case and, more generally, it is the threshold field for both static and dynamic electric fields. Fields of this magnitude induce negative energy charges to adapt positive energy attributes; within an atom they also support inter-state energy transfers and intra-state chaotic mixing of time-varying fields. Nonlinearity-induced chaos forms the basis for the probabilistic nature of photon creation. Answers to physical problems at atomic and lower scales continuously evolve because chaotic-like electron movements change their configurations on a time scale of 10 zs. Within atoms, frequency mixing that creates an optical frequency field occurs in the nonlinear region surrounding the nucleus. On a probabilistic basis a ring of vacuum charge can be induced that forms into an equivalent waveguide that confines the energy as it travels permanently away from the atom. The propagating relativistically augmented fields losslessly induce charges that bind and protect the energy carrying fields. The photon charge-field ensemble, which we show is localizable, is thermodynamically closed and possesses all first-order photon properties including zero rest mass and permanent stability. For near neighbor photons traveling at a speed approaching c we find a small, constant, attractive force between photons with circularly antiparallel polarization.