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

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
Origin, Observation and Consequences of the B (3) Field....Pages 117-125
Opto-Magnetic Effects in Nonabsorbing Media: Problems of Measurement and Interpretation....Pages 127-139
Generalized Equations of Electrodynamics of Continuous Media....Pages 141-150
Maxwellian Analysis of Reflection and Refraction....Pages 151-157
Solutions of Maxwell Equations for a Hollow Curved Wave Conductor....Pages 159-163
Maxwell’s Equations Directly from the Dynamics of Point Particles....Pages 165-168
Obtaining the Schrödinger and Dirac Equations from the Einstein/KAC Model of Brownian Motion by Projection....Pages 169-180
Derivation of the Schrödinger Equation....Pages 181-192
An Appraisal of Stochastic Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 193-203
Compatible Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Beats....Pages 205-215
Stochastic Non-Markov Model of Quantum Mechanical Behaviour....Pages 217-222
Essentially Pure Particle Formulation of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 223-234
A Fundamental Force as the Deterministic Explanation of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 235-246
A Geometric Approach to the Quantum Mechanics of de Broglie and Vigier....Pages 247-258
Stable Orbits as Limit Cycles....Pages 259-268
The Correspondence Principle: Periodic Orbits from Quantum Mechanics....Pages 269-280
Neutron Interferometric Experiments on Quantum Mechanics....Pages 281-292
Enigmatic Neutrons....Pages 293-303
Experiments to Test the Reality of de Broglie Waves....Pages 305-310
Preselected Quantum Optical Correlations....Pages 311-322
Apparent Contradiction in EPR Correlations....Pages 323-332
The Wave - Particle Duality....Pages 333-348
Quantum Mechanical Tunneling in a Causal Interpretation....Pages 349-360
Quantum Uncertainty, Wave-Particle Duality and Fundamental Symmetries....Pages 361-372
On the Contradiction Between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity: A Superluminal Quantum Morse Telegraph....Pages 373-381
Incompatibility between Einstein’s Relativity and Lorentz’s Equations....Pages 383-394
On Self-Interaction and (Non-)Perturbative Quantum GRT....Pages 395-404
Classical Physics Foundations for Quantum Physics....Pages 405-411
Inertial Transformations: A Review....Pages 413-435
The Lorentz Invariance Revisited....Pages 437-442
A New Type of Massive Spin-One Boson: and its Relation with Maxwell Equations....Pages 443-457
Implications of Extended Models of the Electron for Particle Theory and Cosmology....Pages 459-469
The Takabayasi Moving Frame, from the a Potential to the Z Boson....Pages 471-481
The Nature of the Cosmological Redshift....Pages 483-494
A Quantum Digital Theory of Light....Pages 495-502
Toward a Comprehensible Physical Theory: Gravity and Quantum Mechanics....Pages 503-525
Hidden Background Field and Quantum Non-Locality....Pages 527-533
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations within Bell Region....Pages 535-540
Electromagnetic Gauge as Integration Condition and Selection of the Source Adhering Gauge....Pages 541-546
Back Matter....Pages 547-554