Why photons propagates like a wave.

[too-open-minded]

So light doesn't need a medium to travel on, that's all fine and dandy.

 

Why does light look like it is traveling on something? The energy that causes waves in a body of water, does that energy need the water to travel on? No! it doesn't. It is just energy that happens to be traveling with water in its way.

 

I'm wondering is it possible that their is something in lights way and that is why it travels in a wave?

 

I'm probably wrong but before you tell me i'm wrong, tell me why light travels like a wave.

[granpa]

http://www.aetherometry.com/Electronic_Publications/Science/einstein_aether_and_relativity.php

 

 

Aether and the Theory of Relativity

by Albert Einstein, PhD

Edited October 9, 2012 by granpa

[Ronald Hyde]

So light doesn't need a medium to travel on, that's all fine and dandy.

 

Why does light look like it is traveling on something? The energy that causes waves in a body of water, does that energy need the water to travel on? No! it doesn't. It is just energy that happens to be traveling with water in its way.

 

I'm wondering is it possible that their is something in lights way and that is why it travels in a wave?

 

I'm probably wrong but before you tell me i'm wrong, tell me why light travels like a wave.

The latest word on these things is Feynman's sum-over-possible-histories way of doing the math, and it shows that to

the casual observer light would appear to 'move like a wave' too. But another slightly older way of looking at the math

is to remember that the conjugate variables, momentum and position, energy and time, have a Fourier Transform pair

relation to each other, which also involves wavelike representations.