In the image above we see just a few wavelengths of light which was photographed as it traveled through a cloud of neon gas. (The technique involved using excited electrons in the neon cloud to generate ultraviolet light which could then be photographed to trace the movement of the light wave through the cloud of gas).





In the image above we see two wavelengths of light, one longer and one shorter with a higher frequency of these undulations through the field. The lower frequency of light possesses ‘less momentum' (it is less energetic) while the higher frequency of light possesses ‘more momentum' (it is more energetic). Both light waves are detected by a detector and the result is always that both wavelengths reach the detector at exactly the same time (both waves are traveling at the ‘speed of light').

This causes me to ask some questions concerning the ‘speed of a photon', for it would appear that a more energetic photon, which possesses ‘greater momentum', must be traveling through the field at a speed greater than the speed of the wave form itself. The reason for this is that the photon must follow this undulating path through space, and cover a greater distance, while still reaching the detector at the same time as a photon with ‘less momentum', which must cover a lesser distance, while still reaching the detector at the same time. Both waves travel through the field at the same speed, but this does not appear to be true of the photons within the wave. If a photon was to travel at ‘the speed of light' it would seem that the frequency would have to be approaching zero (the wave function would be a flat line).

This idea does make sense, for if a photon possesses ‘greater momentum' we would expect a photon to move with increased velocity. It would seem reasonable to assume that ‘the speed of light' is no speed limit at all, for almost all photons regularly ‘break the light speed barrier' as they travel through the field.

The Large Hadron Collider accelerates subatomic particles to within one millionth of a percent of the speed of light (99.999999%). It would seem to me that one of the most important experiments this collider could perform would be to kick some particle up over top of this so called ‘speed limit'. It would mark the end of an era in physics, and it would be one of the most important experiments ever conducted in the history of that science.