The Obvious Yet Unrecognized Properties of Light
Intuitive Insights Beyond Established Physics
My lifelong journey of seeking intellectual and scientific fulfillment led me to despise the very thing I once idolized — Education. Growing up, I believed that my compulsive curiosity and thirst for truth, wisdom, and depth would find sanctuary and refuge in higher education, away from the falsehoods, superficiality, and vanity of modern society.
I thought that schools and universities were places where questioning was sacred, new ideas were revered, and deep thinking and exploration were boundless, my wildest fantasy ever ~
However, as I delved into the rituals and temples of modern education, I faced a sobering realization: education tends to teach acceptance of established knowledge only without questioning how to improve it fundamentally. They promote conformity and submission to intellectual authorities, encouraging individuals to fit in and parrot others. This realization was a significant personal reckoning for me.
I criticize Education a lot, yet amidst my constant critiques, I must honor the heroes of healthy education: honest, dedicated educators, innovative schools, and tireless reformers and scholars around the world who strive to nurture curiosity and critical thinking, pushing the boundaries of human knowledge.
I developed a self-education method that begins with an enumeration of practical applications for the topic being studied, followed by quickly digesting literature or course material. I then enter an extended research phase to discover missing pieces and propose theories, experiments, or inventions that enhance the understanding and usefulness of this knowledge. This approach can be applied across various disciplines, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy.
In my independent studies of natural science, a recurring theme emerges: peaks and troughs, oscillations, and frequencies, particularly hinting: lightwaves. The topic of light fascinates me because it embodies a fundamental aspect of our universe that spans multiple disciplines. When I refer to light, I mean the full spectrum of electromagnetic waves, from gamma rays to radio waves. Observing light inspires me to delve deeper and explore its nature, various potential hidden applications, and undiscovered properties of it.
Humanity’s quest to understand light has a rich history. From Roman Ptolemy believing light was emitted in rays from the eyes, to Arab Muslim Alhazan’s invention of the first Camera in the 11th century, to Opticks by Isaac Newton and Maxwell equations, to modern quantum physics, the journey continues…
What undiscovered properties might light possess? Could its interactions reveal new behaviors that lie beyond our current understanding? In this article, I will explore these questions, challenging existing assumptions and uncovering potentially overlooked insights. I will share three predictions I made regarding the nature and behavior of light.
1. Laser Or Maser Beam Shadow
In October 2023, while sitting in a café with a former high school classmate who is now a postgraduate physicist. He is one of those useful yet sometimes annoying Sensing/Judging types that I keep around to bounce ideas off and reality-check my thoughts.
I described to him my idea for inventing a method that would enable lasers or masers to cast shadows in light, which could have many exciting applications for humanity. However, my friend, being the academic he is, quickly became skeptical of my proposition, pointing out that my engineering background lacks an understanding of quantum phenomena, and insisted that light cannot interact with light in a way that would allow for the kind of shadow I was describing.
In November 2024, a scientific paper titled “Shadow of a Laser Beam” was published, detailing a method by which scientists managed to cast a shadow for a laser beam inside a ruby crystal eliminated by another laser. Although the outcome is not as exact, it closely aligns with my intuition from years ago — that coherent light can indeed cast shadows in light. This finding validates my insights and motivates me to share more on light, potentially predicting future discoveries or inspiring research efforts among scholars.
This vindication reinforced a crucial lesson: the boundaries between “possible” and “impossible” in physics are often drawn by institutional thinking rather than natural law.
2. Light & Matter Unification
textbook physics perceives light and matter as separate interacting entities: one massless and fast, the other massive and slow. But what if they’re more than that? The more we know, the more blurred the boundary becomes. Wave-particle duality, quantum field theory, and photonic interactions all suggest a hidden continuity.
What if matter and light are different states of the same spectrum? Just as we understood that rays are different frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, perhaps matter is simply “dense composite electromagnetic waves.” For example, a proton could be viewed as multiple collapsed, ultra-frequency, high-energy photons combined. This idea doesn’t rewrite physics; it dares to finish its half-written sentences.
My atomic model, which I hope to experimentally prove and publish, proposes a unification of light and matter in a single structure. I refer to this structure as the “singleton”, which represents the blend of photons or electromagnetic waves. I theorize that at frequencies beyond gamma, radiation collapses into what we recognize as protons.
This composite singleton possesses an internal structure similar to a spinor, where its internal frequencies and geometric configurations at various states lead to all observed chemical phenomena and fundamental forces of nature, but that is a story for another day ~
3. Light-based Anti-Gravity
I’ve been fascinated and interested in gravity since I was a middle school student. Why doesn’t gravity have bi-poles like magnetism? What if we can control, shield, or repel gravity? And what about its illogical space-time curvature explanation by textbook physics? In addition to many other gravitational questions.
My current understanding of gravity achieved in over 20 years of research, pondering, and insight gathering, explains it as an asymmetric magnetic interaction between atoms of a heavy body, while the symmetric version of these interactions is magnetism, an analogy to understand the difference between them would be: magnetism is the sound of an orchestra… synchronous, loud and has a well-defined rhythm, while gravity is the ambient murmur of a crowd, indistinct, scattered, and can’t be defined.
What modern science fails to recognize yet is that Gravity is a repulsive force on an astronomical scale, while acting as an attractive force on a smaller scale. Essentially, it is an astronomical-scale magnetism, while magnetism is micro-scale gravity. I have been developing a gravitational model that aims to prove its own validity by either providing a solution to any three-body problem or by experimentally demonstrating artificial gravitational interaction, i.e. anti-gravity.
This is where light plays a crucial role in this area. Among the many methods or tools I considered for achieving gravitational repulsion or shielding, using electromagnetic waves is the only approach that possesses the necessary geometric properties.
In the future, you will live in cities suspended in the atmosphere or outer space by light. Perhaps planes and rockets will hover in the air and be propelled using nothing more than high-powered Wi-Fi.
Conclusion
These ideas are not just abstract imaginations to me — they’re blueprints waiting to take shape. I am actively working to build, test, and iterate on them. Through a combination of independent research, unconventional engineering, and sheer persistence, I am developing prototypes, simulations, and theoretical models that challenge long-accepted notions. My motivation is not academic recognition, but a deeper desire to soothe my urge for invention and discovery, pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional teaching and demonstrating that even the most “obvious” truths may still conceal something extraordinary right in front of us.