There is something unique about the photon in relation to it’s environment. The common picture of the photon might be to think of this as a particle (ignoring it’s wave-like properties) flying to space-time, bouncing around. The problem with this is that a photon is defined by it’s constant velocity combined with notion that it experiences no time.
It’s this experience of zero time which is most fascinating to me. The best analogy I can think would be to say you’re a newborn human and you enter the work in a completely dark void. Your entire life is spent traversing any given distance in the universe while encountering no other humans, no photons, nothing. The only time you ever get to observe any thing is at your death. But since you’re dead, this is not very meaningful.
To make this even worse, you never grow up. Your embryo never sub-divides. For you, growth would be observation & the experience of time, and the very experience of time is the mechanism of your destruction.
In this sense, photons seem to me to be wormholes. They are shortcuts through space-time. They are paths of zero length. These are not really particles in this sense, they are the wormholes themselves whereby it’s the shifting of energy, moving energy from one configuration to another which is perceived as a particle-wave dual photon.
The counter-intuitive principle a play with a photon is to stop considering that the most red-shifted of their kin just happened to have made it’s way across the observable universe without interacting with anything. A better way to think of this is to say that it was the environment shifting energy through an Einstein-Rosen bridge across space & time which only causes us perceive as a photon because we think the photon had a lifespan equal to the light years needed to traverse such a large distance.
If this is true, then photons are not delayed events, they’re curved short-cuts through space-time to the actual events (energy shifts) as they occurred. The only difference we can observe is their red-shift (loss of energy) relative to the stretching of this zero length path over different lengths of space-time. If photons could traverse a wormhole without losing any energy (zero red-shift), then this would lead to conservation of energy problems due to gravity.
Conversely, if mass & energy are equivalent, that might imply that there’s a similar form of “mass red-shift” for rest-mass capable of traversing an Einstein-Rosen bridge. To get around a conservation of energy problem for mass avoiding mass red-shift (energy loss), you then need to offset & fix the conservation dilemma by presuming that a wormhole capable of being held open for rest-mass would need to make use of negative energy.
The only known practical mechanism of negative energy is the evaporation of a black hole into Hawking radiation. Therefore, where you to assume two maximally entangled black holes evaporating into entangled Hawking radiation creation Einstein-Rosen bridges, any rest-mass making use of this to traverse space-time without mass red-shift might be fundamentally limited to the quantum mechanic holographic screen of an evaporating black hole (firewall/information paradox & holographic principle information preservation resolution).
In some way, this would seem likely (perhaps necessarily) to be occurring all of the time through the “vacuum” of space-time when we see rest-mass carry any minimal momentum in accordance with f=ma.
