I have an exciting new experiment to test for space being the medium for light waves. It is similar to the famous Michelson and Morley experiment. The experiment utilizes a Femto camera. A Femto camera takes a trillion frames per second and is capable of capturing light in slow motion as it leaves its source. The link below is a video of just that. By pausing the video where light has expanded into s sphere, one can then measure for space 'moving past' just as they did in the M&M experiment. If space is in fact the medium for light one would expect to be able to measure for the slight difference in speed along different directions in a paused image of the Femto camera. When I measured with a ruler on the screen I did in fact find that light was travelling faster by a few mm per 25 cm in one direction over the other depending on how you want to look at it. All waves are a denser part of a medium spreading out to a less dense part of that medium, so light is just that and its medium is space.
Due to the amount of debris in space, light will be reflected and refracted. This will corrupt any results without explanation of how spectral breakup occurs. The absence of a fixed point in space complicates matters still further.
"Particles" are really just center points of electromagnetic wave fields. There are no actual "dots" of sub atomic matter that all atomic science illustration depict. Quantum "particles" are simplifications of their real and much larger field forms and extended magnetic fields.
The video sure makes it look like light is a wave, much like a drop in water creates one. But where water is the medium for the wave, I can't understand what the medium for light is. Space? Isn't space literally nothing, a void, a vacuum? Perhaps I need to read up on the Theory of Relativity. I probably should just in general anyways.
This video is equally fascinating and creepy! The ability to break down something as elusive as light to observable levels is a major step in technology. But one question lingers in my mind: isn't it possible to take a single picture of a photon, ray of light, whatever you want to call it, midflight with a regular camera? And I think that I have just answered my own question. It would be blurry AF with any camera we can buy. The shutter/sample speed would have to be one half trillionth of a second long to get a clear picture. Maybe smartphones will have this ability in our lifetime.
Light quantum tunnels in under two attoseconds, while you are looking at molecular chemistry speeds for video. You must have particularly sensitive equipment to measure anything meaningful. My own opinion, is you will merely collect hints that suggest it is a medium, because its an expression of the particle-wave duality of everything. Space and time are indivisible, and to think of space as merely a medium defies all the evidence.
I'm saying the word "Particle" is not a good representation for these quantum objects. If you look up the standard model for elementary particles, they are all depicted as little balls. People think they are little balls. There are no little balls, only magnetic fields. The balls are gross simplifications of these fields, theoretical center points of peak energy magnitudes of their magnetic fields.