I'm always interested in hearing more ideas, even if I don't quite understand what is happening in them ;-D
True. We can never really grasp the other person's alternative ideas with the same appreciation for the connections they have with "the rest of the story".
Why do you model photons as a wave if it has mass and functions as a particle, instead of as a wave of particles that function as that wave? Alike to a wave of water molecules functioning as a wave in water.
The short answer is that there is no short answer. In my view, all particles are composed of wave energy in complex wave patterns. Particles are extremely dense patterns relative to the wave energy flowing in and out in the surrounding space. Their presence is maintained by the two wave energy components of inflow and out flow, but the presence of the particle is the complex wave packet, the standing wave pattern, that moves in response to any imbalance in the directional inflow.
Now here is the difference between measuring the particle as a wave vs. measuring it as a particle. The wave is the spherical out flow of gravitational wave energy; It is what causes the interference pattern in the two slit experiments. The particle is the wave packet itself which gives it the particle nature. Within the packet, those inflowing gravitational waves are flowing through, very slowly relative to the speed of the gravitational wave in surrounding space, because the wave energy density in the particle is very high. What is taking place in the extremely dense interior of the particle space, is that there are a huge number of wave intersections within the space, and each intersection is a momentary high density spot. Each spot acts like a tiny pin hole out which emerges a tiny spherical wave made up of the combined energy of the intersecting waves. I guess it is unlikely that someone else besides me can grasp or even contemplate the idea.
I equate the wave intersections within particles at the quantum level, with the macro level arena wave intersections that take place in the big bang arena landscape of the greater universe. Parent arenas form crunch/bangs from which emerge new arenas, and those arenas are the equivalent of the tiny spherical waves that emerge from pinhole like high density spots inside a particle at the quantum level. The difference in scale is quite significant though, and the time difference in their duration is also quite significant (a huge understatement).
I do like your idea of the light flattening out after being emitted in a sphere; this being the result of gravitational lensing?
The two are not directly related, but in my hobby-model, the photon particle's path is influenced by the gravitational wave energy density surrounding massive objects because light slows down when the gravitational wave energy density of the environment goes up; so the presence of a massive object like a star or a galaxy, or a great attractor for that matter, would bend the path of the light proportional to the local wave energy density that the light traverses.
The flattening we talked about is because the spherical out flow can only just keep up with the photon particle because both are going at the same speed in the forward direction. The spherically out flow, if observable from any perspective except form the that of the photon particle itself, appears as a lopsided trailing wave energy "balloon", spreading out behind and perpendicular to the particle motion. It is almost like it is trying to keep up with the particle, and it has a wave front that is flattened and much broader than the width of the particle's wave packet.
That is a good example of what I meant in the first part of this post about how we can never immediately grasp other people's alternative ideas, lol.
Uhm, "net highest directional inflow"--are you saying a particle will move as a result of the cumulative gravity of the systems it interacts with?
Yes. The gravity of the systems it interacts with form a gravitational wave energy gradient in the medium of space. Objects move through the medium in the direction of the highest source of energy density left imprinted in the medium of space.
It's ok, I am asking questions as I think you are thinking similarly to me, just the doppler shift assumption is lingering. ;-D I don't know if there's much more I can say in this thread to drive home my model without my paper actually being published and the scientific community having a say in the matter, ha.
In regard to the doppler shift assumption, maybe I should try to get up to speed with you on that. Are we talking about the cause of the raw redshift data from measurements of the spectra of galaxies in all directions, i.e. generally there is a prominent redshift in all directions, or is it the dipole effect of motion relative to he CMB "rest frame"?