If one truly wishes to understand photons, the very first step is to abandon the relativistic portrayal of the photon. Relativity offers not a scientific reality, but a construct riddled with speculative assumptions, mathematical distortions, and conceptual exaggerations that have been elevated far beyond their merit. Such a framework has misled generations by presenting illusions of profundity where physical clarity is absent.
Instead, the focus should turn to the rigorous and empirically grounded approaches of Max Planck, Louis de Broglie, and the Extended Classical Mechanics (ECM) framework. Planck’s experimental work on blackbody radiation established the observational foundations of photon physics in their purest form, free from speculative overlay. De Broglie’s insight into wave–particle duality deepened this foundation, while Extensed Classical Mechanics (ECM) expands the picture by explaining photon behavior across gravitational, antigravitational, and transitional regimes — realms relativity fails to address without resorting to abstraction.
To cling to relativistic interpretations is to confine one’s understanding of photons to little more than a preliminary, even inferior, school-level conception. In truth, Einstein’s theorization of the photoelectric effect is often overstated; the phenomenon itself necessarily rests on the principles of thermionic emission, which preceded it. A serious scientific inquiry into photon–electron interactions must therefore prioritize thermionic emission, for it offers a far more comprehensive and physically meaningful account than the reductive perspective of the photoelectric effect.
The time has come to reject the dominance of relativistic dogma and return to physically consistent, observation-rooted frameworks. Only then can the photon be understood as it truly is — not as a mathematical artifact of relativity, but as a real entity governed by measurable, testable principles.
