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Open Access Journal of Physics

A Disproof of Einstein’s Photoelectric Contention That Maxwell Emissions Are Photons, with an Application to the Resolution of the Wave-Particle Paradox

Donald C. Aucamp

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations
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Evidence Supposedly Corroborating EinsteinConcerning experimental evidence supposedly corroborating Einstein's theory, the problem is that all the lab results which have demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation have been based on AR emissions rather than MR emissions.This includes, for example, all the black body studies (e.g., Planck[9]), all the photoelectric experiments (e.g., Millikan[7,8]), all the photon scattering tests (e.g., Compton[5]), and all the Young two-slit anomaly studies which show photon arrivals when the arrival rates are low.The reason for using AR in these tests is that they all either require high energies or low wave-lengths or low arrival rates.MR does not meet any of these requirements, and it therefore has not been used in these experiments.For example,

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