PHOTON LIFE STORY
               by
          Vernon Brown





Deep in the churning bowels of fury that 
formed the center of an old galaxy, a photon was 
twisted into being from the torture of plasma debris.  
Other photons were absorbed by atoms and spit out 
again, but this photon was so energetic with such a 
high frequency that atoms did not absorb it.  It was a 
high energy gamma-ray photon.

Most photons bounced around in the star for 
years before finding a way out but after only a few 
days, this new photon found the edge of its star 
of birth and its path straightened, free of interfering 
forces for the first time.  It sped away at its natural 
speed of light, slowed only slightly by the pull of the 
huge star's gravity.

Sometimes, as it wandered through space for 
billions of years, the photon passed other photons.  
Most of these were low in frequency and so were 
not energetic enough to bother this photon at all.  
But, once every few billion years or so, another 
photon of great energy passed close enough to bend 
this photon's path.

Then, one instant billions of years after its 
birth, this photon passed almost dead center through 
another gamma-ray photon.  The bending of paths 
caused by the high energy fields of both photons 
curled each into a loop so tight that they passed 
right through themselves.

Immediately after the encounter, this photon 
began to unfurl toward a straight line again, because 
its unbalanced field provided only half the force 
needed to sustain the bend that created the 
unbalanced field.  On its way to a straight line the 
photon unfurled through its own fields.  Its forward 
end began to feel the in-phase condition of its 
rearward end as it unfurled toward it.  Then, there 
was a snap of resonance and the power was enough 
to keep this photon's path locked in a tight loop.

It spun there, chasing its tail at the speed of 
light, a curling cork screw migrating slowly through 
space.  Spinning thus, it formed a sphere but kept its 
magnetic plane curled into a north-south pole that 
pointed more toward the direction of movement 
than in other directions.  This photon had become an 
electron.  Close by, spinning at the speed of light 
and moving slowly away, there was a mirror image 
of the electron called a positron that was created in 
the same collision.

Electromagnetic fields moved away from the 
electron and positron at the speed of light and these 
gave birth to photons while the two interferred with 
each other. The force of the fields diminished as the 
square of the distance away from the electron and 
positron.  This time their force diminished too fast to 
pull the particles together again, but sometimes the 
two moved away from each other too slowly and so 
were pulled together to anhilate each other and 
become photons again.

This electron spun through space for more 
billions of years.  Because of its unbalanced charge it 
felt force fields thrown out by galaxies far away, and 
it also felt their tugs of gravity.  These fields and 
gravity increased the electron's speed.  It was finally 
moving at almost the speed of light.

Many other electrons and positrons moved 
through space, feeling each other's charge.  
Sometimes this electron and a positron got caught in 
each others grasp, and collided at low speed.  Their 
opposite fields then unraveled their loops and they 
sped away from the collision as free photons again.  

Many times this happened over again as 
more billions of years went by, and this piece of 
energy was an electron, a positron, a photon, then 
an electron again.  This time, it moved through 
space as an electron.

Then, one instant, a positron came by and 
force fields collided.  Compressed lines of colliding 
force in the fields of the electron and positron 
spewed out low energy photons, converting their 
momentum to energy.   As the distance closed, these 
spewed out photons grew more and more energetic.  
Then there was the most violent instant when 
centers of force fields intertwined.

Force of impact curled the paths of spewed-
out photons so tightly that some found their tails 
when they were forty two times as massive as the 
electron and positron had been.  They then locked in 
resonance in this massive form.  Momentum energy 
was thus converted to mass.  

But, at forty two times the mass of the 
electron, these particles were not stable by 
themselves, and many unfurled back to photons, 
departing at light speed.  One that remained unfurled 
around a very massive positively charged piece born 
of the positron, and the extra charge gave it more 
stability.  This massive positron-like particle was 
1787 times more massive than the electron.

Finally, one last electron loop about 2.5 
times as massive as a normal electron formed, 
making four loops in all.  A neutron was born, and 
close by, vibrating and spinning away, was an anti-
neutron formed out of the same collision debris.  
Each neutron's outside shell was 4.7622 x 10-13 
meters in diameter.  Each was like the other, except 
for the sequence of the charged layers.  

A normal neutron began around a most 
central positive loop, followed by a negative loop, 
then another positive loop, and a final negative loop.  
This sequence was just the opposite for the anti-
neutron.

Both the neutron and anti-neutron threw off 
their outer shells after a few seconds.  They then 
became a proton and an anti-proton.  The proton 
soon picked up an electron and became a hydrogen 
atom.

It was then a neutral atom, and was no 
longer bashed about by force fields, but it did feel 
tiny remnants of photon fields.  These tiny remnants 
were both electric and magnetic, but so weak they 
did not react either electrically or magnetically with 
particles of mass.  All photons did, however, migrate 
toward increasing field strength of the electric and 
magnetic fields.  There was a fixed amount change 
amplitude available in space, and the remnant fields 
used part of it. Photons in mass and photons free in 
space could not reach their full potential because of 
this. Their points of maximum amplitude reached 
that reduced maximum more rapidly where the 
remnant fields were stronger. This caused the 
migration toward increasing field strength and 
caused the phenomenon of gravity.

After a few billion more years, this atom 
found itself among others of its kind.  There was a 
huge cloud of them, churning around, colliding, 
bouncing away, absorbing low energy photons into 
themselves and converting their energy into 
movement.

This cloud grew more dense, squeezing itself 
into swirls of hot energetic atoms.  Then, one 
instant, squeezed into frenzied movement, this 
hydrogen atom found itself nudged by a neutron.  It 
merged right through the neutron's outer shell, and 
found itself bound by the force of its number 2 shell, 
its number 3 shell, the neutron's number 2 shell, the 
neutrons number 3 shell, and the neutron's outer 
shell.  Added together and their square root taken, 
these shells had force equal to that of 10 normal 
electrons.  It was the strong nuclear interaction.

Shortly after, another proton which had itself 
bound with a neutron came crashing in, then others, 
some bound with two neutrons crashed in.  Helium 
atoms were thus formed, and this released photons 
which were absorbed by nearby atoms, boiling them 
into even more frenzy.  Many atoms bound this way 
until the massive swirl of hydrogen erupted into a 
star.

The star exploded into life with such force 
that it blew away the hydrogen gases that were not 
near enough to be held tight by its gravity.  Some 
rocky debris remained close in, however, and these 
began to clump together after a few million years.

Churned and bounced in the middle of the 
star, the helium atom which was formed of the 
proton which was formed of the original photon, 
was constantly tormented.  It collided with ever 
increasing energy with others of its kind.  Toward 
the end of the life of the star, about ten billion years 
after its birth, this torment grew to the point that 
helium atoms combined with each other.

But this was not the end.  The cycle kept 
going until heavier and heavier elements were 
formed.  Then one instant, there was a gigantic 
increase in pressure and many heavy elements fused.  
Iron, carbon, and all the elements of nature were 
among the products.

This aging star could not survive the stress.  
It collapsed upon itself, then blew apart with a shock 
wave that carried much of itself out into space.  Left 
behind was a very dense core that smoldered and 
cooled with age.

The original photon was now combined with 
others in a carbon atom that drifted away from the 
dying star.  For billions of years this carbon atom 
moved through space, until it was caught up in 
another cloud of young hydrogen atoms.  Finally, 
out of this cloud, another star was born.  But this 
time, the carbon atom found itself in a rocky clump 
of debris ninety three million miles from the center 
of star birth.

This carbon atom was among the debris of 
the third debris ring from the star.  There was 
another ring of rocky debris further out, and some 
gaseous rings after that.

After a few billion years, these rings 
coalesced into planets.  A few billion years more and 
the forth planet from the star cooled into a water 
cycle.  This was the temperature that allowed water 
to be liquid on its surface.

Life teemed on the water-rich fourth planet, 
but on the third planet, this carbon atom simmered in 
heat.  Liquid rock flowed so hot that there was no 
place for life.  But, a couple billion years later, the 
third planet cooled into its water cycle.  This carbon 
atom was caught up in life.

First it lived in crawling things, which lived 
and died and were eaten by others.  This carbon 
atom moved through life after life, and age after age 
being recycled through birth and death of living 
things.

After a couple more billion years, the third 
planet cooled till water could only be ice and its 
atmosphere grew thin.  Life forms ended on the third 
planet, but a few billion years later, the second 
planet cooled into its water cycle.  Life flourished 
there for about five billion years.

Then, all was still in the aging star system.  
Life was gone and it grew old.  Its first death came 
with an explosion that spread its debris into space to 
create other star systems.  Many billions of years 
later, its second death came in the center of its aging 
galaxy.

Deep in the churning bowels of fury that 
formed the center of this old galaxy, a photon was 
twisted into being from the carbon plasma gas of this 
dying atom.  Other photons were absorbed by atoms 
and spit out again, but this photon was so energetic 
with such a high frequency that atoms did not absorb 
it.  It was a high-energy gamma-ray photon.  It went 
on and on and on in this repeating cycle from ever 
and ever ago to forever and forever again.