Certainly not a piece of 'common sense'!

The following article contradicts an argument made in another topic,but what the hell,we`re open minded aren`t we?

Electromagnetism is 10^38 times stronger than gravity.That`s a pretty important idea,with serious implications.For gravity seems to be the principal force whose effects are felt over long distances.But,although the effects of electromagnetiic forces usually cancel each other out,being 10^38 times stronger than gravity,even an imbalance in the charge distribution in a single atom should be noticed by a remote observer.

Why isn`t it then?Perhaps it is,and it`s all to do with 'light'.

For there`s one very unsatisfactory,unexplained,thing about light,and that`s that it can only go at one speed,c.In all other respects light,a photon,acts like an ordinary wave-particle.But it`s speed suggests that it`s more like sound- a transmission of energy.Could it just be a transmission of energy,and not a particle at all?

The most stable substances have,at the the most,only a slight separation between their centres of positive and negative charge.Any large charge inbalance,and they will keep attracting other substances,until this inbalance is rectified,and the charge is uniformly distributed.But in reactions,the well ordered charges are scattered.We get an inbalance as 'reactants' move through an unstable intermediate stage before becoming 'products'. This inbalance is a force on the surrounding environment.And this force (I believe) is manifested as 'light'.

But isn`t there a problem with the timing?For a reactions duration can be measured in picoseconds (10^-12 s) but the light we see suggests durations a lot longer than that- and that`s wrong!But there`s a way out of that argument.If light is a manifestation of a force,and this force is applied to some remote atoms,then the atoms will react to the force by oscillatiing,and oscillating in a time period a lot longer tha a picosecond.What I`m saying is that in our interpretation of light,we are doubly wrong:Not only isn`t it a particle,it`s not even a wave-It`s an almost instantaneous force,and what we`re seeing is an illusion-the effect on the atoms in our detector. There are a number of experiments(Photoelectric Effect,Compton Effect that say that light must be a particle,but this argument undermines their conclusions.(There are observations in subatomic physics which suggest that light is a particle,but they could be countered if we assume the presence of yet another unkmown 'fundamental' particle.)

From what we know about electromagnetism,any body that is subject to this force will,by altering the position of it`s component charges,(I believe) adjust its apparent effect with respect to a more distant observer-Subtle adjustments which produce all the wavelike characteristics we know (and love!).

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