On two heuristic viewpoints concerning the study of light

Siwen Bi

doi:10.1117/12.2085041

19 February 2015 On two heuristic viewpoints concerning the study of light

Siwen Bi

Proceedings Volume 9449, The International Conference on Photonics and Optical Engineering (icPOE 2014); 94490L (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2085041
Event: The International Conference on Photonics and Optical Engineering and the Annual West China Photonics Conference (icPOE 2014), 2014, Xi'an, China

Abstract

It has been a debatable problem that what the essence of light is, and how it is produced. Since the modern times, as James Clerk Maxwell setting the theory of electromagnetic up, the mainstream consciousness was occupied gradually by the wave theory of light. But at the end of 19th century, a series experimental phenomenon weren't precisely explained by the wave theory of light such as photoelectric effect experiment. Then Albert Einstein published his famous paper “On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light”, which laid the foundation of light quantum hypothesis. While solving these problems perfectly, a new problem was caused that because the wave theory and the quantum theory are both applicable to interpret some of the experiment of light, what is the essence of light. This paper first outlines the history of optical development and current status, and states the difficulties and deficiencies of the study of light. Then we put forward the key concept of the paper called lightstring which consults some points of the theory of modern optics and physics which called the optical frequency comb and the string theory, then presents the essence of light based on the light string concept in order to make the concept of photons specific. And then we put forward the production mechanism of light ---- the String-Light effect based on the concept of light string. In this paper, we attempt to put forward a new idea of the study of the essence of light and the production mechanism of it.

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Siwen Bi "On two heuristic viewpoints concerning the study of light", Proc. SPIE 9449, The International Conference on Photonics and Optical Engineering (icPOE 2014), 94490L (19 February 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2085041

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