This book provides a classical physics-based explanation of quantum physics, including a full description of photon creation and annihilation, and successful working models of both photons and electrons. Classical field theory, known to fully describe macroscopic scale events, is shown to fully describe atomic scale events, including photon emission and annihilation. As such the book provides a ‘top-down’ unification of electromagnetic and quantum theories.
Sample Chapter(s)
Introduction (84 KB)
Chapter 1: Classical Electrodynamics (248 KB)
Contents:
- Classical Electrodynamics
- Properties of Radiation Fields
- Transmitting Biconical Antennas
- Receiving Biconical Antennas
- Classical-Based Quantum Theory
- Quantized Energy Exchanges
- Matched Multipolar Sources
- Spontaneous Emission
- Absorption, Emission, Entanglements
- Epilogue
Readership: Students and researchers in atomic physics, theoretical physics and electrodynamics.
Dale M Grimes:
During most of his career Dr. Grimes was a member of the Electrical Engineering faculty of the University of Michigan, and is now an emeritus faculty of the Pennsylvania State University.
He was trained in electronics during World War II at US Navy Radio Material Schools at Takoma Park MD and Treasure Island CA. After the war he obtained BS and MS degrees in Physics from Iowa State University and then the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1956. He then remained at Michigan for twenty more years as a Professor of Electrical Engineering. During that period he also served as Director of the Electromagnetic Materials Laboratory, Chairman of the Graduate Committee, and an elected member of the College of Engineering Executive Committee. Meanwhile, on a part-time basis, he co-founded and was Chief Scientist of Conductron Corp., an Ann Arbor company that specialized in radar camouflage, radar, and optics. He became a technical consultant to General Motors Engineering Staff in 1968, where he specialized in on-board automotive radar, a position he held until retirement in 1992.
In 1976 he accepted a position as Department Chair and Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, during which time he also served a one-year elected term as President of the Graduate faculty.
In 1979 he accepted a position as Department Head and Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. There, for three years he was also a board member of the Applied Research laboratory, a laboratory sited on the PSU campus but part of the US Navy. During his tenure as department head he instigated new programs in optics, systems analysis, and computers. In 1986 he stepped down as department head but remained as a Professor until retiring in 1992.
Following retirement, Dr. Grimes co-edited with T.W. Barrett the book ‘Advanced Electromagnetism: Foundations, Theory, and Applications’ and he was a Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Kentucky from 1996 through 2000. During this period he co-wrote with son Dr. C.A. Grimes the book ‘The Electromagnetic Origin of Quantum Theory and Light’.
Dr. Grimes is a life fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a life member of the American Physical Society. He has published about 100 technical papers in refereed journals, and successfully advised 20 PhD students to completion of their doctoral programs at the University of Michigan and Pennsylvania State University.
Craig A Grimes:
Craig A. Grimes received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. In 1990 he joined the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories where he worked on artificial dielectric structures. From 1994 to 2001 Dr. Grimes was a faculty member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Kentucky. From 2001 through 2010 he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Nanjing University of Technology (Nanjing, Jiangsu, China), and Chief Technology Officer of Flux Photon (Raleigh North Carolina, USA). In 2011 Thomas Reuters ranked him 25th among the worlds Top 100 Materials Scientists for the 2000–2010 decade.
His research interests include propagation and control of electromagnetic energy, solar fuels, 3rd generation photovoltaics, self-assembled nanostructures, and remote query environmental sensors. He has contributed over 300 archival journal publications, a dozen book chapters, and some two-dozen U.S. and international patents. In addition to Continuum Electromagnetic Theory: Photon Creation-Annihilation, Dr. Grimes is coauthor of The Electromagnetic Origin of Quantum Theory and Light (World Scientific), Editor of The Encyclopedia of Sensors (American Scientific Publishing), co-author of Light, Water, Hydrogen: The Solar Generation of Hydrogen by Water Photoelectrolysis (Springer), and co-author of TiO2 Nanotube Arrays: Synthesis, Properties and Applications (Springer).
