Replaced Hypothesis of Light Quanta

Einstein, in his later years, expressed deep dissatisfaction with the concept of ‘light quanta’, questioning whether the wave-particle duality, could be more fundamentally understood. In response to this fundamental legacy, we propose “Einsmax Theory of Light Quanta and Massless Particles”, which treats light as comprising two separable, yet interdependent components each component fulfilling separate roles in physical interaction: a light wave is responsible for carrying energy, while massless glittering particles (corpuscles) responsible only for intensity of brightness. ‘Einsmax theory’ retains all Maxwellian and quantum mechanical formalism. This theory adds an additional highlight to the amplitude of the light wave of the photon to be vested with the quantum levels as 1,2,3,4… n, acting as energy storage tanks for emission and absorption of light energy. The implications span quantum optics, photodetection and foundational interpretations of light matter interaction. We present, thought experiments and observational set ups, inspired by macroscopic imaging phenomena, such as long-distance photography in darkness (as well as ‘Camera Obscura’) to illustrate this conceptual separation. The clarity of images formed in dark regions, despite an apparent absence of visual corpuscular brightness, suggests the independent role of the wave component in transmission of the image to the camera, while the object being glittered by the corpuscular component, affirming the Truth: “The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out”.

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