More about badly behaving photons

I wrote about two years ago about strange halving of the unit of angular momentum for photons. The article had title Badly behaving photons and space-time as 4-surface).

Now I encountered a popular article (see this) telling about this strange halving of photon angular momentum unit two years after writing the above comments. I found nothing new but my immediate reaction was that the finding could be seen as a direct proof for h_eff=nh₀ hierarchy, where h₀ is the minimal value of Planck constants, which need not be ordinary Planck constant h as I have often assumed in previous writings.

Various arguments indeed support for h=6h₀. This hypothesis would explain the strange findings about hydrogen atom having what Mills calls hydrino states having larger binding energy than normal hydrogen atom (see this): the increase of the binding energy would follow from the proportionality of the binding energy to 1/h_eff². For n₀=6→ n<6 the binding energy is scale up as (n/6)². The values of n=1,2,3 dividing n are preferred. Second argument supporting h=6h₀ comes from the model for the color vision (see this).

What is the interpretation of the ordinary photon angular momentum for n=n₀= 6? Quantization for angular momentum as multiples of hbar₀ reads as l= l₀hbar₀= (l₀/6)hbar, l₀=1,2... so that fractional angular momenta are possible. l₀=6 gives the ordinary quantization for which the wave function has same value for all 6 sheets of the covering. l₀=3 gives the claimed half-quantization.

See the article Badly behaving photons and space-time as 4-surface.

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.

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