Photon as a classical wave packet from classically stabilized electron orbits

Jan Olof Jonson

doi:10.1117/12.747574

31 August 2007 Photon as a classical wave packet from classically stabilized electron orbits

Jan Olof Jonson

Proceedings Volume 6664, The Nature of Light: What Are Photons?; 66640W (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.747574
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The fact that an orbiting electron does not collapse into the nucleus of its parent atom has thus far been considered a major obstacle to a classical interpretation of the stable states of orbiting electrons. Quantum mechanics avoids the very problem by discussing the probability of finding it, a method that confessedly has been very fruitful in the exploring the behaviour of elementary particles. Nonetheless, why should necessarily those two approaches be regarded as each others' enemies? In this paper it is shown that the classical mechanistic approach is still capable of explaining the eternal, circular movement of an electron around a nucleus. It is possible if reformulating the laws of action involved, returning to the simple electrostatic model, based upon Coulomb's law (1785, 1771). Further, in this paper it is also discussed, how electromagnetic radiation due to the de-excitation of excited electrons, orbiting around a positive nucleus, can be explained classically, as a sudden peak in the otherwise zero electric field, due to the inwards spiralling movement connected to the de-excitation. The concept of a distinct particle, the 'photon' is thereby rejected.

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Jan Olof Jonson "Photon as a classical wave packet from classically stabilized electron orbits", Proc. SPIE 6664, The Nature of Light: What Are Photons?, 66640W (31 August 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.747574

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