Electromagnetic and Quantum Measurements: A Bitemporal Neoclassical Theory

✍ Scribed by Tore Wessel-Berg (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is a pleasure to write a foreword for Professor Tore Wessel-Berg's book, "Electromagnetic and Quantum Measurements: A Bitemporal Neoclassical Theory." This book appeals to me for several reasons. The most important is that, in this book, Wessel-Berg breaks from the pack. The distinguished astrophysicist Thomas Gold has written about the pressures on scientists to move in tight formation, to avoid having their legs nipped by the sheepdogs of science. This book demonstrates that Wessel-Berg is willing to take that risk. I confess that I do not sufficiently understand this book to be able to either agree or disagree with its thesis. Nevertheless, Wessel-Berg makes very cogent arguments for setting out on his journey. The basic equations of physics are indeed time-reversible. Our experience, that leads us to the concept of an "arrow of time," is derived from macro­ scopic phenomena, not from fundamental microscopic phenomena. For this reason, it makes very good sense to explore the consequences of treating microscopic phenomena on the assumption that forward time and backward time are equal.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
The Causal Enigma....Pages 1-9
Photons in Bitemporal Microcosm....Pages 11-38
Neoclassical Electromagnetics....Pages 39-74
Are Electron Media Bitemporal?....Pages 75-98
Photon Wave-Particle Transition....Pages 99-127
Photons and Doublets in General Networks....Pages 129-149
The Double Slit Experiment for Photons....Pages 151-204
The Double Slit Experiment for Electrons....Pages 205-232
The Enigmatic 1/F Noise....Pages 233-263
Questioning Stern-Gerlach....Pages 265-275
Photon Tunneling—Superluminal Velocity?....Pages 277-287
Delayed Choice Interferometric Experiments....Pages 289-314
The Famous EPR Paradox....Pages 315-336
Quantum Bases-Neoclassical View....Pages 337-361
Back Matter....Pages 363-373

✦ Subjects

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory