Soumendra Nath Thakur

Independent Researcher, Extended Classical Mechanics (ECM)

ORCiD: 0009-0005-4672-2570

In the Extended Classical Mechanics (ECM) framework, photon emission is reinterpreted not merely as a quantum radiative event, but as a profound mass-energy displacement process that initiates a physical separation between electromagnetic interaction and gravitational coupling.

During photon emission:

hf = ∆Mᴍc² , −Mᵃᵖᵖ = ∆Mᴍ

This relation reflects the displacement of mass-equivalent energy (∆Mᴍ) from a bound system. Following emission, the photon no longer retains gravitational potential coupling to the source — unlike electrons or other massive particles that remain embedded in the emitter’s mass-energy structure. The photon becomes gravitationally unbound, thereby representing the liberation of freely propagating electromagnetic energy.

The photon's momentum emerges from the displaced mass itself:

p=∆Mᴍ⋅c=−Mapp ⋅c

This constitutes a transition from gravitationally-confined to mass-decoupled energy — an effect unique to photon emission.

For comparison, phonons (quantized vibrational energy modes) remain confined within the solid-state lattice and interact through electron–phonon coupling, without gravitational escape or mass-energy liberation. This distinction further highlights the photon’s role as a signature of interaction decoupling, as seen in ECM.

ECM also suggests that this microcosmic separation mechanism mirrors the early-universe mass-energy redistribution, where a global ∆Mᴍ event may have induced a gravitational deficit field (−Mᵃᵖᵖ) and initiated free electromagnetic radiation — a macro-scale analog of photon emission.

This discussion invites insights, extensions, or critical perspectives from the broader research community on photon emission, mass-energy displacement, and fundamental interaction separation.