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Uriel
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I've read two articles about the historic development of the concept of photon and how some effects which originally were explained using photons have been later explained by other means.
And after this two quick readings I have a lot of questions. First of all, do we really need a concept of photon in order to explain quantum physics? Second, if that's the case then what it's exactly a photon? And finally, can we develop an experiment to decide which of our models is the "correct" one?
I know it's somewhat a philosophical question, but so was the hidden variables theories before Bell.
I would greatly appreciate any reference to discussions and papers related to this mater.
Thank you all in advance.
P.S. The articles I talk about are
http://www.optica.machorro.net/Lecturas/ModernPhoton_AJP000027.pdf
http://www-3.unipv.it/fis/tamq/Anti-photon.pdf
And after this two quick readings I have a lot of questions. First of all, do we really need a concept of photon in order to explain quantum physics? Second, if that's the case then what it's exactly a photon? And finally, can we develop an experiment to decide which of our models is the "correct" one?
I know it's somewhat a philosophical question, but so was the hidden variables theories before Bell.
I would greatly appreciate any reference to discussions and papers related to this mater.
Thank you all in advance.
P.S. The articles I talk about are
http://www.optica.machorro.net/Lecturas/ModernPhoton_AJP000027.pdf
http://www-3.unipv.it/fis/tamq/Anti-photon.pdf