Photons are very interesting. The basic model is easy to understand, but they come in various polarizations and diffraction and interference are topics that are everything but easy. However, we can assure the reader that, after many sleepless nights, we did find what we wanted to find: everything is quite comprehensible in terms of classical physics.
Everything?
Yes. Everything—including the phenomenon of one-photon Mach-Zehnder interference, although we would like to do some more research on that in the future. Why? Because we suspect weird stuff such as the reality of the possibility of doing weak measurements will confirm our modeling approach, which we lay on in our paper on a classical theory of light.
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Thanks for this, David. I’ll definitely look at it. In the meanwhile, you may want to have a look at my https://readingfeynman.org/2015/10/05/taking-the-magic-out-of-gods-number-some-additional-reflections/ post, and the one preceding it: https://readingfeynman.org/2015/10/02/taking-the-magic-out-of-gods-number/
Both go a step beyond what I wrote on this page here. Thanks again and keep it up !
Interesting article. How do you reconcile that fact that in the ‘rest’ frame of the photon, all space is contracted to zero and thus there is no time to interact with anything? And can you say that a photon has a magnetic field (in its frame) since the E field is not changing? Could the magnetic field associated with an EM wave (or photon) be more analogous to a cloud of dust “moving along” with a car on a dusty road? The Poynting vector is relative to the ‘ground’ not the ‘car’.
Hi Cran – I would suggest you do not reply to ‘Veronica Noordzee’: he seems to ask sensible questions at first but he is really a ‘spammer’ (and quite agressive at times). As for your other question, I’d need to think about that. My day job has been so exhausting that I moved a bit out of this ‘quantum-mechanical’ research. As for “no time to interact”, however, I can already offer this: the electron it interacts with has a spatial size (given by the Compton or interaction radius), and so electron-photon interaction clearly has a spatial and time dimension – of the order of the ‘Compton scale’. Also, I wouldn’t agree with your analogy for the magnetic field – for the simple reason that electric and magnetic fields are complementary relativistic phenomena – not the one ‘real’ thing (that ‘real’ thing is represented by four-vectors – but the problem with four-vectors is that they are hard (impossible) to ‘visualize’ or ‘imagine’… Kindest regards- JL