[Southack]

"The collapse of the field demonstrably travels outwards at the speed of light, because the collapse of the field physically manifests itself in the form of photons..."

One more point, you make it sound as though a Field is collapsing OUTWARD, rather than inward.

Is that really what is happening? Do Fields really collapse OUTWARD? When I turn an electromagnetic OFF, the magnetic Field goes from covering some area to covering no area, yet if it collapsed outward, one might think that it went from covering some finite area to covering an infinite area.

Surely what we are seeing is that the Field collapses inward, and this action causes a photon to be emitted outward, correct?

[Physicist]

You're joking, right?