A QED-compatible wave theory of light, electrons, and their interactions

Henry H. Lindner

doi:10.1117/12.893053

28 September 2011 A QED-compatible wave theory of light, electrons, and their interactions

Henry H. Lindner

Proceedings Volume 8121, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? IV; 81210X (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.893053
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The photoelectric effect, the Compton effects, and now anticorrelation experiments have been claimed to prove that light consists of particles flying through a void. However the particle model is decisively falsified by the known wave qualities of electromagnetic radiation. Quantum Electrodynamics also uses spreading wave amplitudes; not flying particles. The evidence indicates that light is a wave and electrons are electromagnetic wave-structures that absorb and emit light in discrete wave-packets. These wave-quanta are emitted directionally and then spread in space in proportion to their wavelength. Their waves superposition with all other waves in space. In low intensity experiments, the waves that an electron in a photodetector absorbs come from the superpositioning of the source wave-quanta and background radiation. The importance of background radiation is evidenced by "dark counts". Treating electrons and the quanta they absorb and emit as particles when they are composed of waves is the source of all the paradoxes, unreality and confusion in Quantum Mechanics. The word "photon" should be replaced by "quantum" in the description of this particular electronic process. The conceptual model presented here explains the known phenomena without producing paradoxes and unifies quantum and classical electromagnetics.

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Henry H. Lindner "A QED-compatible wave theory of light, electrons, and their interactions", Proc. SPIE 8121, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? IV, 81210X (28 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.893053

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