The post just prior to this presented my thinking on how the universe is put together. A fact which has implications for us. For instance, because of how mass is caused by the motion of folds and higher order objects through space-time, an object such as the graviton becomes unnecessary, and even impossible. In short, we don’t need gravitons to explain gravity, for gravity is adequately explained by the curvature of space time we call mass.
Because everything is space-time it means that objects must follow the curve of space-time and so cannot be sent on cosmic short cuts.
A fold is a higher energy state. This means that folds unfold as the universe becomes less compressed as it expands. Thus the universe is unfolding as it should. The more compressed the universe was the more folds there were. At the beginning the universe was a fold. A fold that expanded until it reached a point where flat space-time was possible. With the partial unfolding of the universe inflation came to an end and the universe as we know it came to be.
Finally, everything has mass. Not virtual mass, but actual mass. A fold can have no mass, but only if absolutely motionless. Because a fiber consists of at least two folds orbiting a common center of mass no fiber — and so no thread, string, etc. — can be massless. So yes, photons have mass. A photon moves at a velocity of 1C because the mass of a photon is such that 1C is the velocity a photon will travel at. Were photons to have a greater or lesser mass, then 1C would be a different speed.
Note that the speed of light is the speed a photon travels at in a hard vacuum. In any other medium a photon travels at a lower apparent speed. From the right point of view a photon travels at a constant speed regardless of the medium, it just has further to go for a given volume because that volume has a greater apparent density. In an absolute vacuum — any volume with absolutely no curving of space-time other than that caused by the photon — a photon would travel at a much higher velocity than the accepted 186,000 approximate miles per second. So 1C is an approximation based on a particular set of conditions and the actual speed is likely something something much greater.
So there you have my idea and some of the consequences there of.
