Lets me start with my question for you: Likely more than once you have seen a depiction of a photon in terms of it’s electric and magnetic field. And always the magnetic field and electric field are very similar, see for example the first picture below. That is my understanding of a linear polarized photon: It has it’s maxima, minima and zero’s on the same place.

Photons can be made by electrons for example when they accelerate. The official version of the electron is that it is a ‘tiny magnet’ and as such not a magnetic monopole as I think it is. My question is very simple:

If it would be true that an electron has two magnetic poles and is an electric monopole, then how come the electric and magnetic field in a photon are so similar?

That is kind of weird and after a decade of looking at explanations of magnetic stuff by physics people I know that always when something a weird or outright crazy, it is always ignored. They only tell things that at the surface sound logical and all weird stuff simply gets neglected. There are many examples of this, one of the main examples is the electron pair in chemical bonds. The official theory says their spins must be anti-aligned but elementary insights in magnetics say that now the potential energy is maximal while in general nature always strives to the lowest potential energy state. And try to hold two bar magnets with the same poles at each other and it repels: Well the weird things about electron pairs always get skipped by the professional physics professors…

Anyway, below is my understanding of two linear photons made by two electrons with a different magnetic (monopole) charge. I have left out all details that are not needed like the speed of light or the frequency. That is because I want to highlight the difference in the magnetic component they have: A phase shift of pi or 180 degrees if you want so.

So far for the question I had for you. The video is from Qiskit, that’s IBM, and in the quantum computer world David DiVincenzo is a celebrated name. Back in the nineties together with another person he posted some criteria for making something as say a qubit based on the spin of the electron.
He has been working of stuff like this for about three decades now, of course there is no working qubit based on electron spin at all and of course David has no clue at all as why this is but like all university people he is extremely good at talking out of his neck.

I took the freedom to make a few screenshots and in the middle of the image below you can see David has strong mathematical fantasies about how such spin qubits should behave. Well David, if you ever read this: Likely they won’t do that in a billion years.

For example in the entiry video of one hour long David never ever touches the delicate detail of how to flip the spin of an electron. Now of course you can always apply a magnetic field and say that the electron will align itself with that magnetic field because it has a torque on it by this magnetic field. On the other hand official quantum theory says that alignment or anti-alignment is fundamentally probabilistic. So this is a problem and people like David never have such problems. Or at least they don’t talk about it…

At last the video, it is a bit long and not suitable for a tiktok video.

Ok, that was it for this post on magnetism. The next post is a math post on how to express the determinant of a 4×4 matrix in terms of a bunch of 2×2 minor matrices. Thanks for your attention.