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What is a photon?

General Physics 2013-06-20 v1

Abstract

We discuss the absorber theory of radiation as put forward by Wheeler and Feynman. We show that it gives a better understanding of the photon compared to the usual quantum electrodynamics (QED) picture.

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@article{arxiv.1306.4310,
  title  = {What is a photon?},
  author = {Vasant Natarajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.4310},
  year   = {2013}
}

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9 pages

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