Hypothesis
Given these three features of massless particles (e.g. photons) [1]:
• Entanglement [2]: When entangled, the state of the particles is perfectly correlated so checking information about one instantaneously produces information about the other or others in the system regardless of the distance between them, violating C, the speed of light, as a universal physical constant.
• Timelessness [3]: At the speed of light, particles don’t experience time. This means that from the relativistic perspective of non speed of light traveling objects, time is stopped for the particles at the speed of light.
• Erasing of history [4]: When a particle is observed, it not only collapses on the point of observation but also defines retroactively a path in which it got to such point as a particle, erasing it’s previous wave-like history regardless of distance travelled.
What can be inferred?
To logically fit these three features of massless particles, it occurs to me two things:
• That acceleration to, or the speed of light itself is really a state of full stop, not of motion. In other words, when an object is accelerated it is really being decelerated, and when it reaches, or is at the speed of light it is in an ultimate state of absolute rest, or absolute non-motion, from its internal relativistic perspective, in the universe.
• That when an object is in the above state of absolute rest, it is in a state of singularity where time and space do not exist from its internal relativistic perspective. In other words, any and all objects that are in the above state of absolute rest, are all in the same singular spot in space.
Immediate problems and contradictions
1. Ok, if all objects that are not at absolute universal rest do experience space and time, are they not in the singularity? How did they get out of it?
2. If massless particles are in a singularity, how can they have different directions when observed from the perspective of objects not in it?
3. If the speed of light is absolute rest, then what is the opposite? Or, what is motion or absolute motion?
Tentative answers
I don’t know, but a first shot at answering questions 1 and 2 may be that there can be two kinds of states in the universe:
• Absolute universal rest in a singularity
• Motion, which intrinsically creates space and time [5]
To answer question 3, it could be said that the definition of classical rest may be a state opposite of absolute rest. For example, any object not at the speed of light is at rest locally from a relativistic perspective and that is the opposite of absolute universal rest.
Conclusion
Others may have thought of this idea, and of course I don’t expect my answers make or have to make total sense. But, at least the three features above fit logically in my mind when I think of C, the speed of light, as absolute rest in a singularity.
I think this hypothesis implies that objects at the speed of light either go back to the big bang singularity or go forward to a future singularity. Or, both and all are the same singularity as the concepts of past and future would not exist in this scenario for particles in absolute rest.
Indeed, all massless particles that have been traveling at the speed of light since the big bang have actually not experienced time nor space, and will only define a non-wave path to a point when they collapse due to an observation or interaction.
When a particle is in a state of universal rest singularity, with all other particles in the same state, it is everywhere in the universe at the same time, which may be consistent with Schrödinger’s quantum particle wave equation, but perhaps without the probability distribution.
PS: In the following article I illustrated a photon creation and collapse cycle according to the hypothesis I propose above:
Illustration of Photon Absolute Universal Rest
References
[1] Massless Particle – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massless_particle
[2] Quantum Entanglement – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
[3] Time Dilation – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
[4] Quantum Eraser – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_eraser_experiment
[5] How the Point and Motion Create Space – by Donald McIntyre: https://etherplan.com/2020/12/07/how-the-point-and-motion-create-space/13962/
