The Rope Hypothesis

Abstract:

Classical and Quantum Mechanics invoke waves,
wave-packets and particles to provide physical interpretations
to electromagnetic phenomena. However, these illustrations are
neither supposed to be taken literally nor are they advertised as
genuinely depicting the real world. Their sole purpose is to
represent invisible interactions classically in order to provide a
measure of physicality to the mathematical descriptions. It is
thus that certain experiments are simulated with extended
waves and others with discrete wave-packets. Duality raises
questions as to the ad hoc nature of the representation and to
the usefulness of abstractions as
didactic and explanatory tools.
Here we suggest that light has been misdiagnosed. We propose
an alternative model that provides a faithful physical
interpretation to the fundamental properties of light. We
replace the electromagnetic wave with a two-strand rope and
simulate the wave-packet as a to
rsion propagating from atom to
atom along this twined entity.
The fundamental assumption is
that all atoms in the Universe are interconnected. The rope
hypothesis justifies and simulates basic features and behaviors
of light such as straightness, speed, and orthogonality, and
merges light with gravity in
to a single mechanism.

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