Note: This article is a followup of my article about massless particle absolute universal rest, which I link here: The Speed of Light is Absolute Rest, not Motion.
As an illustration of my idea that massless particles are at absolute universal rest in a singularity that encompasses the whole universe, as opposed to motion and in a specific location, I made this modified Feynman diagram [1].
It describes the life cycle of a photon that was created on the galaxy GN-z11 [2], the oldest and most distant known galaxy in the observable universe at the time of this writing.
The photon was emitted approximately 13.4 billion years ago, according to regular matter time, and interacted, thus was absorbed, with a detector on earth in 2016.
Taking into account the expansion of the universe, GN-z11 was about 927 million light years away from where earth would have been at the time of the photon’s creation. By the time of its detection in 2016, it was around 32 billion light years away from earth.
From the photon’s perspective, it did not travel therefore it experienced no time nor space according to my absolute universal rest idea. However, it did redshift due to the universe’s expansion, as it expands with it.
I created two new symbols; one with an up arrow to indicate the moment of creation of the photon, and another with a down arrow to indicate its absorption or collapse. These replace the traditional sine wave drawings to show photons in Feynman diagrams as seen below.
As with traditional Feynman diagrams, the visualization is useful to think of different scenarios and if the idea fits all of them.
References
[1] Feynman Diagram – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_diagram
[2] Galaxy GN-z11 – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GN-z11
