The universe is shaped by radiation

Considering the formula of Plank for the spectrum of blackbody radiation as a product of two terms derived from a particle and a wave picture representing the blue and red ends, Einstein studied Wein’s equation and concluded in 1905 that light must be composed of independent packets (quanta/wave- particles/soft corpuscles) each of constant energy h. That is; the discreteness postulate of Plank was not limited to radiation/light interactions with matter but extends to light itself. This was not intuitive and was not accepted before Compton did his electron-radiation scattering calculations in 1923 using only particles with momentum and energy. In this paper, we adopt Einstein’s wave-particle concept and show that it’s singly (with the known characteristics of light) and with no added assumptions, can describe all the interactions of physics! We start with the concepts of space, time, mass, charge, force, inertia, discreteness, symmetry, elementary particles, and end with the all-important conservation laws. Radiation spreads from a point symmetrically in all directions, it conserves momentum, has infinite lifetime and moves in empty space at a constant speed c. It can also condense to create matter via E=mc^2, confirmed by the e-p pair experiments, with matter attributes emerging from this condensation [1]. Further interactions with radiation, causes matter to accelerate according to the negative density gradient of energy (radiation) [4]. A non-stop energy-matter interaction becomes the basis for building larger matter elements, growing up from elementary particles to elements and compounds to cover all space. The present work suggests that the interactions of physics can all be explained using the Einstein energy quanta together with the known radiation characteristics and we find that this remarkable success of the quanta model (and also that of the weight-function of QM) in representing nature, is basically due to the use of the ‘sine’ function of mathematics. It is a solution to both the classical and QM wave equations- carrying the characteristics of spacetime symmetry as well as its discreteness and continuity!