Quantization in Bound States Is Not the Same as Quantization in Free Fields
Explanation
Modern physics treats Planck’s quantization as universal: whether it’s an electron in an atom, a photon crossing a void, or vacuum fluctuations, the assumption is that all follow the same discrete rules. But this belief leans heavily on a conceptual shortcut—applying known quantization behavior from mass-bound systems (like atoms) to massless energy structures (like photons or charge dipoles) without proof.
- Planck’s constant emerged from studies of blackbody radiation and atomic oscillators—systems where mass-bound charges vibrate under constraint.
- This data is then projected onto photons, treating them as indivisible packets with identical energy quantization rules, despite no demonstrated mechanism that a massless, propagating energy gradient would be subject to the same constraints.
- The charge dipole—hypothesized here as a self-contained energy structure formed by compression of lattice gradients—represents a fundamentally different configuration from both photons and mass-bound systems.
Quantization in bound systems is a result of boundaries. For free waves, the constraint may instead be the slope the lattice can sustain. Extending this into free-field space—where waves travel without confinement—confuses boundary-quantized standing modes with gradient-governed traveling fields. Photons and charge dipoles, as massless field configurations, obey 1/r² decay, not standing wave constraints.
Extending the known (Planck’s work on quantized emission from electrons) into the unknown (massless structures like free charge dipoles) is a category leap not yet justified.