The EM Spectrum: at ultra short wavelengths and high frequencies might we observe the fundamental particles of matter?

[Bazil_SW]

Hi all,

The other day I was thinking about the electromagnetic spectrum and Nikola Tesla's famous quote.... 

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” 

If light is a wave, but has a particle that we perceive as 'physical', a photon, and gravity is a wave with a hypothetical graviton (yet to be found), might it be possible that all particles are actually the 'physical' representations of different frequencies of the EM spectrum? 

 

Looking at the EM spectrum, with shorter wavelengths (and higher frequencies), the smaller the 'items' seem to be, so if we go further to the right with ultra short wavelengths and very high frequencies, do we get the 'physical' particles we observe as quarks, muons, charms, electrons and the other (currently understood) fundamental particles?

 

How might we test this hypothesis?

 

Cheers!

 

EM spectrum Image I was looking at is linked below (it won't allow me to attach any more pictures for some reason)

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AEM_Spectrum_Properties_edit.svg&psig=AOvVaw3cD_g3zE8cBH6krutKyLSR&ust=1646315827797000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCJC2rMPKp_YCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

[joigus]

12 minutes ago, Bazil_SW said:

How might we test this hypothesis?

We have. The jury went home very long ago, and the answer is no. Gravity is nothing like EM: non-polar, equivalence principle...

High-energy experiments proved long ago that there are colour charges which are non-electromagnetic in nature.

EM doesn't explain decays, which are explained by weak interactions instead.

[Bazil_SW]

ok, fair enough, thanks for the quick reply!

What did you mean by "colour changes"?

[studiot]

1 hour ago, Bazil_SW said:

Looking at the EM spectrum, with shorter wavelengths (and higher frequencies), the smaller the 'items' seem to be, so if we go further to the right with ultra short wavelengths and very high frequencies, do we get the 'physical' particles we observe as quarks, muons, charms, electrons and the other (currently understood) fundamental particles?

A small point, but the Ultra Short waveband is far to low in frequency or long in wavelength.

 

This site has a more comprehsive list than yours , but uses frequency not wavelength to distinguish.

 

https://terasense.com/terahertz-technology/radio-frequency-bands/

[Buai]

At the gravitational frame rate (time dilation and it's opposite) we experience the full em spectrum would phase through anything with higher or lower gw frequencies (dm and de)

[Phi for All]

1 hour ago, Buai said:

At the gravitational frame rate (time dilation and it's opposite) we experience the full em spectrum would phase through anything with higher or lower gw frequencies (dm and de)

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[studiot]

2 hours ago, Bazil_SW said:

ok, fair enough, thanks for the quick reply!

What did you mean by "colour changes"?

joigus actually said colour charges not changes.

Here is a short extract from nobel physicist Frank Wilczek recent book, Fundamentals, ten key to reality.

[Bazil_SW]

17 minutes ago, studiot said:

joigus actually said colour charges not changes.

Here is a short extract from nobel physicist Frank Wilczek recent book, Fundamentals, ten key to reality.

So he did, my bad.  Thanks for the screen grab. 

Edited March 2, 2022 by Bazil_SW