Photons Demonstrate Everything Wrong with Theoretical Physics

David de Hilster was planning on doing a video on physicality in physics and instead, headed right for the photon. The wikipedia entry for photons is a perfect demonstration of everything wrong with today's theoretical physics. David goes off on the mumbo jumbo presented on the photon page and has one big conclusion.

Wikipedia entry for the photon:

[donaldviszneki]

1m40s "so, if there is no mass, then how can it move with the speed of light? You have to have something to move. Mass is that requirement."

This sounds like an absurd statement to me. For what reason is mass a requirement for a position which changes with respect to time?

Later, "how could it be a particle if it has no mass?" You may as well ask how a neutron can be a particle if it has no electric charge.

[longlostwraith]

I don't understand what your confusion is about the "masslessness" of the photon. It has zero REST mass, meaning that if it was somehow stopped, it would have zero energy (and therefore not exist). But what it does have is momentum, because in the quantum world, you don't need mass to have momentum.

Oh, I see, you equate "mass" with "existence"... Yeah, no.

We have observed massive objects such as the Sun or distant galaxies bend light countless times. What NASA scientists say it isn't true and why aren't they fired yet?

The neutrino previously was a theorized particle to balance the energy of nuclear interactions. It's very hard to detect but it was eventually proven to really exist.

Unfortunately, you are wrong. A photon can indeed interfere with itself. The interference pattern is produced no matter how dim the light source is, even if it produces a photon every minute. Trying to make sense of quantum mechanics is what leads to insanity, you just have to accept it. What waves is the probability that the particle will be at any point in space, and those probability waves can interact and interfere with one another.

The ether doesn't exist, there've already been experiments that prove the model wrong.

I'm done, I can't watch further than this. It's clear now that you have nothing of substance to say...

[jonbainmusicvideos]

If the photon is always moving it is contradictory to say it is static and has any property that is at rest.

Momentum implies mass. The Compton effect demonstrates this. The only reason that it was decided the photon has no mass is that when you apply special relativity you would end up with infinite mass if it had any mass at all.

But special relativity is easily disproven dozens of ways.

eg: if two photons move apart what is the distance between them after 0.001 seconds? Thus the velocity between them is??

If you apply SR time dilation to the photon it would stop moving entirely. If you only apply that to internal properties of the photon then its frequency would stop!

If you claim that photons are not valid inertial reference frames then you contradict the fact that photons have inertia because inertia is momentum!

If a photon departs my nose then relativistically my nose departed the photon at light-speed. Thus my nose would have infinite mass relative to the photon! The photon could not escape the black hole in my nose!

Then google "instant gravity proof" for GR debunked.

[robertdehilster]

Symmetry exists is mathematics not in the real world.

[TheSimonScowl]

One thing I do not do is listen to people who spend all their conversational time ridiculing an idea or ideas, but never offering up any alternative ideas.

[barbaroskaracoban]

I kindly recommend to reduce the laughing effects. It will be easier to follow the very good points you mention.

[tehnik]

Why is having mass a necessary condition for moving/having a constant velocity?

[dmitrid]

Can you please talk about erroneous introduction of neutrinos into explanation of beta decay? Thanks

[EtherDais]

I notice that we are also bad at distinguishing between single photons and groups of photons in many descriptions. Polarization is key to any substantive photon model but our current models seem off...

[LisaHouserman]

congratulations it looks like your channel is growing

[oldbutbold]

I gotta say I don't understand a single thing on that Wikipedia page. I see a lot of mumbo jumbo and big words which doesn't help explain anything in physics. Is modern science really this far fetched?

[Masterpeace]

Saying that light is made of photons is no different than saying sound is made of phonons. Absurd.

[GregStewartecosmology]

I think it's critical that the typical analytical, should reject anything that's cryptic, or hypocritical!

[philoso]

Can you define vacuum?
Vacuum is empty of matter only filled with Aether. Aether has no physical but electrical property, with a measurable permittivity a value of 8.8541878128x10^-12 Farad/meter.

Untrained in electrical engineering, Einstein took vacuum as empty of matter and Aether into his theory of special and general relativity. Disrupted our view to a natural world.

[mas]

I don’t think laughing at a theory or making jokes about it is a theory.

[JanicePhillips]

Light isn't a particle.
It can only be a wave because it's energy...electromagnetic energy.

[SkyDarmos]

Lol, photons do not have rest mass. It seems you understand nothing about physics.

[alexhudson-]

Ever since a child I've always wondered why nobody talked about the universe being infinitely small as it is large, kind of like a fractal. I feel like everything ever is all just connected.

[calebhaines]

So the spins of each fermion can interact directly but it is most likely best to actually measure out the photons that cause quantum entanglement of fermions on the scale of Fermi mathematics.

[seachangeau]

modern physics is just ridiculous when they can talk about multi dimensions and alternate universe in seriousness. holoscience.com is my favourite real physics website!