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Re: Is photon a wave packet ?



On Fri, 17 May 2002, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
On the road to considering dissertation topics, Feynman (under Wheeler)
tried to construct an electrodynamics based solely on this
actio-in-distans mechanism. I don't have details, but they finally
abandoned the idea. I think (?) one of the difficulties appeared to be
that the advanced solutions to the wave equation had to be taken
seriously, with undesirable conceptual consequences. Perhaps someone
knows more - it is an interesting question.

That topic was much more fully explored in Cramer's "transactional"
version of QM. I finally grasped some of it when I saw an explanation in
the book "Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality."


http://mist.npl.washington.edu/tiqm/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316328197/

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