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When God built the world, he needed an absolute ruler to measure space, an absolute clock to measure time. This is light. Then the light was kneaded together in space-time and became matter. Space-time is not a container for matter, not a stage for matter, but "you are in me and I am in you", becoming part of matter. Light is their dominator. Therefore, when we say that virtual particles are transmitting interactions [1], they are actually interactions mediated by light and space-time, and virtual particles are only a kind of "pronoun".

We should be aware of the special nature of light. Many physicists believe that photons have no special characteristics compared to other elementary particles [2]. Why do we choose to ignore the basic facts?

1) The speed of light is independent of the inertial system in which the observer is located, and becomes the basis of Special Relativity‡, the limiting criterion of motion. This alone is sufficient to declare that the photon is not in the same position as any other particle.

2) The speed of light is independent of the inertial system in which the light source is located*, and the speed of light seen by the observer remains the same no matter at what speed (and in what direction) the light source is moving. This one determines the absoluteness of light's own background spacetime, and provides a reference standard for relative spacetime. The speed of motion of any other particle is closely related to the reference frame.

3) Photons have an infinite variety of continuity (ν→∞), while any other particle in the Standard Model [1] has only one. Or group them together, in symmetrical terms, a finite number of generations. A more symmetrical statement would be that a continuous infinite number of photons corresponds to a discrete infinite number of matter particles. But there are only a few kinds of matter particles that can exist stably. If we haven't missed it, the distribution of discrete matter particles, from lowest to highest, should be, x → neutrinos (three generations) → x → electrons (three generations) → x → quarks (three generations) → x → ....... Where x represents particles that are undiscoverable in their very short lifetimes, or their energies are too high to have been discovered yet. We believe that black holes line up in this series[4].

4) Photons express energy-momentum from infinitely small to infinitely large without limit. The energy of any elementary particle in the Standard Model is determined.

5) Light is in eternal motion and cannot be accelerated, which determines that photons are particles without mass. This is the essence that distinguishes photons from other particles [3].

6) A free photon has no gravitational field**, or its gravitational field potential is 0. Any other particle has a gravitational field.

7) The polarization of a photon is different from the spin of a particle.

8) Light is the only particle that does not interact with its own kind, they only interfere superpositionally, and any interference disappears as soon as it does not interact with other matter (e.g. the screen). Any other particle interacts with its own kind.

9) Any two photons of the same frequency are absolutely identical in absolute space. However, any two electrons cannot overlap, and the difference in spatial location causes them not to be absolutely identical†.

10) The speed of light is constant in any spacetime context and in any medium¶. This point determines that the spacetime of GR, the spacetime of SR, and the spacetime of QM must be the same spacetime[5]. And any other particle will change its velocity not only when interacting, but also in a gravitational field.

Please feel free to add to this and welcome different points of view.

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Note

* The process of photon emission: from a light source in a particular inertial system to a photon in absolute space, where the interface can only be light itself.

† I am not sure how this differs from the all-homogeneity that determines statistical properties, Bose statistics, Fermi statistics.

‡ Any "relativity", relative space-time, relative energy-momentum, arises because of interactions and the need for conservation of energy-momentum during the interactions.

¶ The change in the velocity of light in a medium is only the result of an external observer's observation; it is the result of a change in space-time within the medium. Nowhere does light appear to change its velocity.

** If a photon is in a gravitational field, its energy owns the gravitational field as it matches it. This is compatible with GR.

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References

[1] Schmitz, W. (2019). Particles, Fields and Forces, Springer.

[2] Weinberg, S. (2020). Dreams of a Final Theory, Hunan Science and Technology Press.

[3] The only possibility for a photon to manifest mass is from the non-axial action of matter particles on it. That is, any action that exists at an angle to the direction of propagation of light, z, is capable of experiencing the mass of the photon. Note that our criterion for determining mass is the presence or absence of "damping" in its own motion. The structure and motion of the photon have a definite directionality, and other particles do not have to distinguish between the directionality of their structure and the directionality of their motion (or we don't know that yet), and their structure can be considered isotropic. So using E=mc^2 applied to photons is not correct, because when there is no interaction, the photon must not have mass. When there is an interaction, the mass of the photon is simply the mass felt by the other. The photon does not hold. Whereas any other particle will hold a changed mass after the interaction. For example, when an electron is accelerated, his mass changes according to the Lorentz transformation.

[4] Similar point of view, “The assumption is made that black holes should be subject to the same rules of quantum mechanics as ordinary elementary particles or composite systems. ”‘t Hooft, G. (1985). "On the quantum structure of a black hole." Nuclear Physics B 256: 727-745.

[5] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373717939_Convergent_and_Disperse_Cyclic_Multiverse_Model;

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