Open AccessLIGO: The hypothesis of photons with non-zero rest mass
Author(s) -
C. Marchal
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1251/1/012034
Subject(s) - physics , photon , invariant mass , rest (music) , cosmology , electron , einstein , ligo , zero (linguistics) , astrophysics , quantum electrodynamics , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , gravitational wave , philosophy , linguistics , acoustics
This study is done under the following assumptions: A) The results presented in the two relativistic works of Henri Poincaré “Sur la dynamique de l’électron” [1,2] are true. B) the “second principle” of Einstein, the constancy of the velocity of light, in “Zür Elektrodynamik der bewegten Körper” [4)], is not necessarily true and the photons can have an extremely small but non-zero rest mass m o . Of course all photons will be considered as identical, an already common assumption for electrons, for protons and for all particles. In these conditions are analyzed the small modifications of the aberration of stars, of the Doppler-Fizeau effect, of the Maxwell equations for the propagation of electromagnetic fields, etc. Some test observations and experiments are proposed. The photon-photon interaction is analyzed. It may have very large consequences in astronomy and cosmology.