Preface ...................................................... xiii
Acknowledgments ................................................ xv
Editors ...................................................... xvii
Contributors .................................................. xix
Section 1 Critical Reviews of Mainstream Photon Model
1 Light Reconsidered ........................................... 3
Arthur Zajonc
2 What Is a Photon? ........................................... 11
Rodney Loudon
3 What Is a Photon? ........................................... 23
David Finkelstein
4 The Concept of the Photon—Revisited ......................... 37
Ashok Muthukrishnan, Marlan O. Scully, and M. Suhail
Zubairy
5 A Photon Viewed from Wigner Phase Space ..................... 59
Holger Mack and Wolfgang P. Schleich
Section 2 Epistemological Origin of Logical Contradiction
6 Inevitable Incompleteness of All Theories: An Epistemology
to Continuously Refine Human Logics Towards Cosmic Logics ... 81
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri
7 "Single Photons" Have not Been Detected: The Alternative
"Photon Clump" Model ....................................... 111
Emilio Panarella
Section 3 Exploring Photons beyond Mainstream Views
8 What Is a Photon? .......................................... 129
C. Rangacharyulu
9 Oh Photon, Photon; Whither Art Thou Gone? .................. 143
A.F. Kracklauer
10 The Photon Wave Function ................................... 155
A. Muthukrishnan, M.O. Scully, and M.S. Zubairy
11 Photons Are Fluctuations of a Random (Zeropoint)
Radiation Filling the Whole Space .......................... 163
Emilio Santos
12 Violation of the Principle of Complementarity and Its
Implications ............................................... 175
Shahriar S. Afshar
13 The Bohr Model of the Photon ............................... 197
Geoffrey Hunter, Marian Kowalski, and Camil Alexandrescu
14 The Maxwell Wave Function of the Photon .................... 207
M.G. Raymer and Brian J. Smith
15 Modeling Light Entangled in Polarization and Frequency:
Case Study in Quantum Cryptography ......................... 215
John M. Myers
16 Photon—The Minimum Dose of Electromagnetic Radiation ....... 237
Tuomo Suntola
17 Propagating Topological Singularities: Photons ............. 251
R.M. Kiehn
18 The Photon: A Virtual Reality .............................. 271
David L. Andrews
19 The Photon and Its Measurability ........................... 281
Edward Henry Dowdye, Jr.
20 Phase Coherence in Multiple Scattering: Weak and Intense
Monochromatic Light Wave Propagating in Cold Strontium
Cloud ...................................................... 297
David Wilkowski, Yannick Bidel, Thierry Chaneliere, Robin
Kaiser, Bruce Klappauf, and Christian Miniatura
21 The Nature of Light: Description of Photon Diffraction
Based Upon Virtual Particle Exchange ....................... 317
Michael J. Mobley
22 What Physics Is Encoded in Maxwell's Equations? ............ 333
B.P. Kosyakov
23 From Quantum to Classical: Watching a Single Photon
Become a Wave .............................................. 349
Marco Bellini, Alessandro Zavatta, and Silvia Viciani
24 If Superposed Light Beams Do not Re-Distribute Their
Energy in the Absence of Detectors (Material Dipoles),
Can a Single Indivisible Photon Interfere? ................. 363
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri
25 What Processes Are behind Energy Re-Direction and
Re-Distribution in Interference and Diffraction? ........... 379
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri
26 Do We Count Indivisible Photons or Discrete Quantum
Events Experienced by Detectors? ........................... 397
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri and Negussie Tirfessa
27 Direct Measurement of Light Waves .......................... 411
Ј. Goulielmakis, M. Uiberacker, R. Kienberger,
A. Baltuska, V. Yakovlev, A. Scrinzi,
Th. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann,
M. Drescher, and F. Krausz
Index ......................................................... 419
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