Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light

Proceedings of a Symposium in Honour of Jean-Pierre Vigier

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1997

Overview

Editors:
  1. Stanley Jeffers

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, North York, Canada

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Sisir Roy

    1. Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Jean-Pierre Vigier

    1. Department of Physics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  4. Geoffrey Hunter

    1. Department of Chemistry, York University, North York, Canada

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 80)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (50 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. A Quantum of Light Shed on a Classical Problem

    • Cynthia Kolb Whitney
    Pages 1-8

  3. A Classical Photon Model

    • R. G. Beil
    Pages 9-16

  4. Stationary Vacuum-Polarization “P Fields”: The Missing Element in Electromagnetism and Quantum Mechanics

    • Malcolm H. Mac Gregor
    Pages 17-35

  5. Electrons and Photons as Soliton-Waves

    • Geoffrey Hunter
    Pages 37-44

  6. Topological Solitons in Nonlinear Electrodynamics

    • German Kälbermann
    Pages 45-55

  7. A Particle or Photon in a Field

    • J. Kajamaa
    Pages 57-65

  8. The Myth of The Photon

    • Trevor W. Marshall, Emilio Santos
    Pages 67-77

  9. Could the Photon be Superfluous?

    • Mendel Sachs
    Pages 79-96

  10. Fluctuation-Dissipation Quantum Electrodynamics

    • G. F. Efremov, A. Y. Chekhov, L. G. Mourokh, M. A. Novikov
    Pages 97-101

  11. Statistical Theory of Photon in the Nonlinear Media and in Vacuum

    • G. F. Efremov, L. G. Mourokh, M. A. Novikov
    Pages 103-106

  12. Einstein-De Broglie-Proca Theory of Light and Simultaneous Existence of Transverse and Longitudinal Photons

    • Sisir Roy, Malabika Roy
    Pages 107-116

  13. Origin, Observation and Consequences of the B (3) Field

    • M. W. Evans
    Pages 117-125

  14. Opto-Magnetic Effects in Nonabsorbing Media: Problems of Measurement and Interpretation

    • S. Jeffers, M. Novikov, G. Hathaway
    Pages 127-139

  15. Generalized Equations of Electrodynamics of Continuous Media

    • V. M. Dubovik, B. Saha, M. A. Martsenuyk
    Pages 141-150

  16. Maxwellian Analysis of Reflection and Refraction

    • R. D. Prosser, S. Jeffers, J. Desroches
    Pages 151-157

  17. Solutions of Maxwell Equations for a Hollow Curved Wave Conductor

    • V. Bashkov, A. Tchernomorov
    Pages 159-163

  18. Maxwell’s Equations Directly from the Dynamics of Point Particles

    • G. N. Ord
    Pages 165-168

  19. Obtaining the Schrödinger and Dirac Equations from the Einstein/KAC Model of Brownian Motion by Projection

    • G. N. Ord
    Pages 169-180

  20. Derivation of the Schrödinger Equation

    • Thomas B. Andrews
    Pages 181-192
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, North York, Canada

    Stanley Jeffers

  • Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

    Sisir Roy

  • Department of Physics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

    Jean-Pierre Vigier

  • Department of Chemistry, York University, North York, Canada

    Geoffrey Hunter

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation