Ebook: The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light: Proceedings of a Symposium in Honour of Jean-Pierre Vigier

THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE QUANTUM THEORY OF LIGHT In August of 1995, a group of over 70 physicists met at York University for a three-day symposium in honour of Professor Jean-Pierre Vigier. The attendance included theoretical and experimental physicists, mathematicians, astronomers and colleagues concerned with issues in the philosophy of science. The symposium was entitled "The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light" in accordance with Professor Vigier's wishes but in fact encompassed many of the areas to which Professor Vigier has contributed over his long and distinguished career. These include stochastic interpretations of quantum mechanics, particle physics, and electromagnetic theory. The papers presented at the symposium have been arranged in this proceedings in the following approximate order: ideas about the nature of light and photons, electrodynamiCS, the formulation and interpretation of quantum mechanics, and aspects of relativity theory. Some of the papers presented deal with alternate interpretations of quantum phenomena in the tradition of Vigier, Bohm et al. These interpretations reject the account given in purely probabilistic terms and which deems individual quantum events to be acausal and not amenable to any analysis in space-time terms. As is well known, Einstein and others also rejected the purely statistical account of quantum mechanics. As stressed by Professor Vigier at the symposium, the current experimental situation now allows for the first time for individual quantum events to be studied, e. g.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
A Quantum of Light Shed on a Classical Problem....Pages 1-8
A Classical Photon Model....Pages 9-16
Stationary Vacuum-Polarization “P Fields”: The Missing Element in Electromagnetism and Quantum Mechanics....Pages 17-35
Electrons and Photons as Soliton-Waves....Pages 37-44
Topological Solitons in Nonlinear Electrodynamics....Pages 45-55
A Particle or Photon in a Field....Pages 57-65
The Myth of The Photon....Pages 67-77
Could the Photon be Superfluous?....Pages 79-96
Fluctuation-Dissipation Quantum Electrodynamics....Pages 97-101
Statistical Theory of Photon in the Nonlinear Media and in Vacuum....Pages 103-106
Einstein-De Broglie-Proca Theory of Light and Simultaneous Existence of Transverse and Longitudinal Photons....Pages 107-116
Opto-Magnetic Effects in Nonabsorbing Media: Problems of Measurement and Interpretation....Pages 117-125
Generalized Equations of Electrodynamics of Continuous Media....Pages 127-139
Maxwellian Analysis of Reflection and Refraction....Pages 141-150
Solutions of Maxwell Equations for a Hollow Curved Wave Conductor....Pages 151-157
Maxwell’s Equations Directly from the Dynamics of Point Particles....Pages 159-163
Obtaining the Schr?dinger and Dirac Equations from the Einstein/KAC Model of Brownian Motion by Projection....Pages 165-168
Derivation of the Schr?dinger Equation....Pages 169-180
An Appraisal of Stochastic Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 181-192
Compatible Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Beats....Pages 193-203
Stochastic Non-Markov Model of Quantum Mechanical Behaviour....Pages 205-215
Essentially Pure Particle Formulation of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 217-222
A Fundamental Force as the Deterministic Explanation of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 223-234
A Geometric Approach to the Quantum Mechanics of de Broglie and Vigier....Pages 235-246
Stable Orbits as Limit Cycles....Pages 247-258
The Correspondence Principle: Periodic Orbits from Quantum Mechanics....Pages 259-268
Neutron Interferometric Experiments on Quantum Mechanics....Pages 269-280
Enigmatic Neutrons....Pages 281-292
Experiments to Test the Reality of de Broglie Waves....Pages 293-303
Preselected Quantum Optical Correlations....Pages 305-310
Apparent Contradiction in EPR Correlations....Pages 311-322
The Wave - Particle Duality....Pages 323-332
Quantum Mechanical Tunneling in a Causal Interpretation....Pages 333-348
Quantum Uncertainty, Wave-Particle Duality and Fundamental Symmetries....Pages 349-360
On the Contradiction Between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity: A Superluminal Quantum Morse Telegraph....Pages 361-372
Incompatibility between Einstein’s Relativity and Lorentz’s Equations....Pages 373-381
On Self-Interaction and (Non-)Perturbative Quantum GRT....Pages 383-394
Classical Physics Foundations for Quantum Physics....Pages 395-404
Inertial Transformations: A Review....Pages 405-411
The Lorentz Invariance Revisited....Pages 413-435
A New Type of Massive Spin-One Boson: and its Relation with Maxwell Equations....Pages 437-442
Implications of Extended Models of the Electron for Particle Theory and Cosmology....Pages 443-457
The Takabayasi Moving Frame, from the a Potential to the Z Boson....Pages 459-469
The Nature of the Cosmological Redshift....Pages 471-481
A Quantum Digital Theory of Light....Pages 483-494
Toward a Comprehensible Physical Theory: Gravity and Quantum Mechanics....Pages 495-502
Hidden Background Field and Quantum Non-Locality....Pages 503-525
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations within Bell Region....Pages 527-533
Electromagnetic Gauge as Integration Condition and Selection of the Source Adhering Gauge....Pages 535-540
Back Matter....Pages 541-546
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