The Nature of Light: What is a Photon? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781420044249)

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.

Author: Chandra Roychoudhuri
ISBN-10: 1420044249
ISBN-13: 9781420044249
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2008
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2009 pg. 48