How Does Light Travel Through Space?

[IG2007]

I like your posts very much.

 

[Helio]

Nice.

Many like to refer to light packets, where photons travel in great numbers, even when diminished by distance by the inverse square law.

But some of those photons do become absorbed or scattered. The dark regions in your nice galaxy image are very likely due to photons that were absorbed or scattered by a cloud of gas and dust. This dimming effect, along with specific bands of scattering, provide astronomers with very useful information of these nebulae.

 

[Lucille]

Every point of light you see in the sky is an entire world sending out energy in the form of light. Your ability to perceive this light even across such vast distances says a lot about not just the nature of light, but how powerful the sources of that light really are. Here’s what it takes for light to travel through space.

1. Photons may be particles, but light travels as a wave.
The double-slit experiment is a famous one for good reason: it demonstrated that light can behave both as individual particles and as a wave. When light travels through space, it propagates as a wave, but in a different way than other types of waves. Sound waves, for example, need a medium to interact with, and since there’s not enough densely packed matter in space for sound to travel on, soundwaves don’t carry through a vacuum. Light waves, on the other hand, don’t need anything to travel through, so they can move quite easily through space.

2. There’s nothing for the light to interact with, so it travels on and on.
Since the light doesn’t need a medium to travel with, it isn’t hindered in any way and will keep on going. It won’t dissipate, and it will continue to expand out forever.

3. Stars send out light in every direction.
If light doesn’t dissipate, why do some stars appear dimmer? This has to do with the amount of light we receive from the source. The light from a distant star is being sent out in all directions in a spherical configuration, and it will fill the entire space afforded to it. This means that for a star that’s very distant, only a tiny sliver of the light being sent out actually reaches our eyes. The light itself hasn’t dimmed on the way; the amount we receive has reduced.

Yes, think of a prism.

 

[Jzz]

Sara Rayne, This is a thought provoking article, albeit a little misinformed. “Every point of light you see in the sky is an entire world sending out energy in the form of light.”

This is an interesting enhancement on Huygens’s original statement which states that:

“Every point on a wavefront is a source of wavelets that spread out in the forward direction at the same speed as the wave itself. The new wavefront is a line tangent to all of the wavelets.”

This principle works for all wave types, not just light waves. Another over simplification appears to be your statement that: “Light waves, on the other hand, don’t need anything to travel through, so they can move quite easily through space.”

Even Einstein admitted that light needed electric and magnetic fields to travel through. My question is, “Why bring up this topic of fields at all?” Look at Dark matter. Have a real good look, examine it closely. What you will find is that Dark matter has exactly the same properties that the aether was once said to have. It exists everywhere, 85% of the mass of the Universe is made up of dark matter with the remaining 10% made up of cold objects such as clouds of hydrogen or dwarf brown stars and so on, solid matter such as our Galaxy and solar system account for just 5% of all matter in the Universe. Dark matter was discovered much before relativity came on the scene. The point is that with so much dark matter in the Universe, light should not be able to propagate at all. It should be blocked out in every direction. Instead, light travels through dark matter without apparently experiencing any interaction at all. This property of Dark matter is the reason that we know anything at all of the Universe we live in. Further, Dark Matter has all the characteristics of a true field and not an oscillation of two fields, the electric and the magnetic. If Dark Matter is made up of electric di-poles it would fulfil all of the properties of an electromagnetic field and still be a physical manifestation as required by the classical definition of a field, occupying every point in space. If you want to learn more about how light propagates, you cannot do better than to read my paper on the “Electromagnetic Universe” a link to which is provided below.

The Electromagnetic Universe.docx

The Gestalt Aether Theory introduces a new electromagnetic theory of the Universe. This theory encompasses all branches of physics and offers new explanations for previously unexplained or arcanely resolved phenomena. The first paper deals with the

www.academia.edu

 

[Atlan0001]

Jzz: Conflict (if there is any) or not, I find your views quite interesting and thought provoking.

 

[Atlan0001]

Numbered mile marker-like light fronts, developing flexible accordion-like corridors, are space-time travelers traveling as two way streets (+/-) of time throughout space. Externally, they travel into the future (+) (into futures (+)). Internally, they travel into the past (-) (into pasts (-)). The net is the constants of 'c' ((+/-) 186,000mps) and 't = 0'. Any other space-time traveler (t = 0) exists in the observable past (-) of his destinations upon departures, bound to travel an observable future (+) to arrivals everywhere situate 'Now' (t = 0). He travels futures (+) to arrivals (always equal distant ('1/2') in horizon between ultimate horizons). He always observes his departure point to travel pasts (-) (recoiling, rebounding, in time past (-)) in order to arrive in all light-time pasts (-) relative to him -- always pointing toward the collapsed horizon of ultimate origin -- behind him in space-time.

The traveler traveled ahead ascending into a future (+) and toward radius physic '1/2'. At once, the traveler traveled behind him descending toward and into a past (-): a past pointing ultimately in descent toward the collapsed horizon of infinity and a superposition dimension of origin. Upon all arrivals he looks out to the surrounding universe and finds himself (t = 0) observably centered (t = 0) (radius, physic, '1/2') between negative time (-) horizons, exactly the same horizon, and observably surrounded by pasts (-) to unobserved and unobservable futures (+), to Now (t = 0) (radius, physic, '1/2'). To the Universe (U) and universe (u), he never leaves center. To them he will always exist at departure point, a. k. a. beginning (Hawking's "Grand Central Station" with its centrally located special "clock" (t = 0)).

The Traveler traveled the numbered mile marker-like light fronts, the flexible accordion-like time corridors, as a space-time traveler traveling two-way streets (+/-) of time through space.

 

[Atlan0001]

Numbered mile marker-like light fronts. "Flexible accordion-like light-time corridors," "two-way streets (+/-) of time through space." Time tunnels through space. Wormholes. 4-dimensional tractable warp (tractable bubbles of....) space-time. We can actually move, go in motion, travel, whether just a little, or titanically big time. All the same if and when internally self-powered (self-accelerative) in and through universe (which itself appears the prime example, prime show, of hyper space-time plane . . . down plane to a physic, or physics, of "self-acceleration" (and/or "inertialessness")). Driving the environment versus being driven by environment (such as particles being closed systematically controlled by and externally driven by the forces of the LHC) makes all the difference.
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It's a multifaceted, multi-dimensional, Multiverse Universe.

 

[murphybridget]

That's a mind-bending journey, I can definitely appreciate the harmonies of your exploration.

 

[Classical Motion]

I believe the slit experiments shows that light travels like particles.....discreet and intermittent. But much faster. The light pattern is painted too, just like the electrons.

Check out the interference pattern for neutrons.

 

[murphybridget]

Let's keep exploring these accordion-like folds in the fabric of space-time!

 

[Classical Motion]

How does mass travel in space?

If we can see the light of the first young galaxies, and if all matter came from the big bang, and if it took that light 14 billion LY to get here, How did the matter that we stand on, get here before that light?

How did the evolved with life MW get 14 BLY away from that first lit galaxy? In only 14 BY?

 

[Atlan0001]

How does mass travel in space?

If we can see the light of the first young galaxies, and if all matter came from the big bang, and if it took that light 14 billion LY to get here, How did the matter that we stand on, get here before that light?

How did the evolved with life MW get 14 BLY away from that first lit galaxy? In only 14 BY?

That light is coming from a collapsed "cosmological constant" 'Horizon Mirror'! It is always and forever to be observed there!

 

[Classical Motion]

Right, that's what I thought.

 

[Atlan0001]

Right, that's what I thought.

You don't know how much I enjoyed this quick back and forth above and otherwise! In no time flat I explained what it has taken me many threads and posts to try to explain! Thanks hugely for it!!!!

 

[Classical Motion]

Glad to help you out. But my last comment was in jest. I am in the dark of your concepts.

For me the concepts of light and matter do not puzzle, but the mansense of it is most confounding.

Man's reasoning is the ultimate mystery dynamic.

 

[murphybridget]

Glad to help you out. But my last comment was in jest. I am in the dark of your concepts.

For me the concepts of light and matter do not puzzle, but the mansense of it is most confounding.

Man's reasoning is the ultimate mystery dynamic.

Good luck on your search.

 

[Classical Motion]

Light travels as a dissolving flux.

 

[Questioner]

Does light 'travel' at all?
Is the wavefront a superposition probability state until it is 'observed' into a photon?

 

[Atlan0001]

You walk into a dark room and turn on the light switch. How come you see anything at all? You walk inside, outside, and see a lot of things in your view. How come it is all always coming to you rather than always going away and leaving you always in absolute darkness? If even darkness.

Even when you think you've seen beams of light traveling, light came to you to inform you other light was doing something elsewhere. You are always the end game of the light. An object real is always the end game of a front of light energy. An advancing front oncoming is the only light you, or any object real, deal in! You will always be facing into it, heading into it, or it heading into you. Always personally experiencing it in your face, or in the face of some instrumentation, can you understand what that means regarding light, time, and the speed of light?!

It always being in your face, or some other face, it has no back, no rear, at all! You will always only see and travel into some oncoming face of light energy. It still comes to you even in your rearview mirror. Only the image in your rearview mirror goes away from you in time, not the light in your face!

 

[murphybridget]

You walk into a dark room and turn on the light switch. How come you see anything at all? You walk inside, outside, and see a lot of things in your view. How come it is all always coming to you rather than always going away and leaving you always in absolute darkness? If even darkness.

Even when you think you've seen beams of light traveling, light came to you to inform you other light was doing something elsewhere. You are always the end game of the light. An object real is always the end game of a front of light energy. An advancing front oncoming is the only light you, or any object real, deal in! You will always be facing into it, heading into it, or it heading into you. Always personally experiencing it in your face, or in the face of some instrumentation, can you understand what that means regarding light, time, and the speed of light?!

It always being in your face, or some other face, it has no back, no rear, at all! You will always only see and travel into some oncoming face of light energy. It still comes to you even in your rearview mirror. Only the image in your rearview mirror goes away from you in time, not the light in your face!

Your wording is pretty intense don't you think.

 

[Classical Motion]

Space time, expanding space, light cones and red shift come from the fallacy of light. Once understood, space time, expanding space, light cones disappear. And red shift is easily explained.

Light being measured at c velocity from all observers is a joke. We have never measured the velocity of light.

Just like professing perpetual motion is impossible. ALL physical entities have perpetual motion. ALL mass is a perpetual motion. As is all propagation.

Light is our most ignorant foundation. And it perverts all science.

Light is a duty cycle dynamic, not a wave dynamic.

Try it........and the cosmos becomes clear. A simple blink has hidden the cosmos from us.

There is NO back and forth in space. There is only an on and an off. Present and not present.

Light is chunky. A flux of dissolving chunks.

 

[Atlan0001]

"There is no such thing as absolute motion . . . there is only relative motion."

If one goes in motion traveling toward or at the speed of light, one cannot tell it (Heisenberg uncertainty principle) due to all that relative motion, all of those relative motions, everywhere enclosing one. Again, "There is no such thing as absolute motion . . . there is only relative motion."

Look up Newton's three laws of motion, too!

There are two different physics for the speed of light, one closed systemic (inside it) and one open systemic (outside it).

 

[Classical Motion]

Every particle has absolute motion. Inertia IS absolute motion.

 

[Atlan0001]

Every particle has absolute motion. Inertia IS absolute motion.

There is inertia and there is inertia-less! There is closed systemic slave (inside it) and there is open systemic free (outside it)!