Photon gas as medium for electromagnetic propagation

[Pierre007080]

Hi Guys,
I came across this article by Jikang Chen and it is of importance to me to know what measure of credibility this concept holds in the general physics fraternity. I do not have the background to make sense of the mathemetics or physics cited. I would appreciate your comments.

The Relativistic Dynamics of Photon Gas Two dynamic equations are established in photon gas, which is just the carrier or medium of electromagnetic waves​

Authors: Jikang Chen

The site that the pdf article is available is :
http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0255

 

[jtbell]

He claims the photon has a rest mass of about 10^-39 kg.

According to

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/photon_mass.html

the experimental upper limit on the photon mass is at most about 7 x 10^-17 eV (in terms of energy) which corresponds to about 10^-52 kg.

I don't see any attempt in this paper to reconcile these two numbers.

 

[ZapperZ]

Hi Guys,
I came across this article by Jikang Chen and it is of importance to me to know what measure of credibility this concept holds in the general physics fraternity. I do not have the background to make sense of the mathemetics or physics cited. I would appreciate your comments.

The Relativistic Dynamics of Photon Gas Two dynamic equations are established in photon gas, which is just the carrier or medium of electromagnetic waves​

Authors: Jikang Chen

The site that the pdf article is available is :
http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0255

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