The Nature of Light: What is a Photon?

By Katherine Creath

Book Overview

Gathering contributions from globally recognized specialists in electrodynamics and quantum optics, this volume continues the debate on the definition of a photon and the concept of wave-particle duality. After covering the mainstream view of the nature of light and photons, it presents a new and challenging scientific epistemology that explains how to overcome the prevailing paradoxes and confusions arising from the accepted definition of a photon as a monochromatic Fourier mode of the vacuum. It concludes with an array of experiments that demonstrate the innovative thinking needed to examine the wave-particle duality of photons.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367387107
• ISBN13: 9780367387105
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"