Zero rays, neutrinos, scattering, and autofocus.

I remembered a question I was recently asked about the “self-action” of electromagnetic waves, which was the subject of a note dated 31 VII 2026 with the similar title “Coulomb’s Law for electromagnetic waves.”

The idea is fundamentally wrong, but, as I have repeatedly noted, even bad hypotheses can become a good “seed”, a “center of crystallization” for other, fairly sound ideas.

So the following thoughts came.

Consider two linearly polarized electromagnetic waves with the same plane of polarization. Let’s say they spread out in the same direction and their trajectories are parallel and spatially close to each other.

Then there are two possible ways for them to “interact”:

One is when they are in phase (that is, they coincide in phase), the other is out of phase.

They are NOT SUPERIMPOSED on each other, that is, they cannot interfere, but simply propagate in parallel at a small distance.from each other.

If their phases coincide, then they should DIVERGE due to mutual repulsion!

If they are in counterphase, they should attract each other and eventually OVERLAP, that is, experience the usual interference. To form a Null ray, which I have described more than once in previous notes, possessing energy, but “hidden” and therefore not interacting with anything.

In the language of quanta, these are two photons superimposed in opposite phases on each other, NEUTRINOS!

As is known, neutrinos can “contain” very significant portions of energy and, nevertheless, they do NOT REACT with the nuclei of any substance! That is, they are reactive, but EXTREMELY RARE!

Another possibility for two such plane–polarized waves is their parallel propagation in the same direction, but there will be two planes of their polarization, also parallel to each other and with spatially close trajectories. In this case, they will also diverge, being in phase, or converge, even overlapping each other, if they are out of phase.

That is, to repeat the effects already described.

So, in addition to the so-called gravitational focusing of light from very distant stellar or galactic objects (due to the passage of light near powerful gravitational fields), the “autofocus” of light waves or quanta described above can also be observed.

Similarly, the scattering of light in space can occur due to the mutual repulsion of common-mode quanta or waves.

This is just a hypothesis, however, if it is experimentally confirmed, it may become a universally recognized optical effect.

Faciant meliora potentes.

25 IX 2026