I missed the fact that Dr. John Cramer here in UW physics, has recently
teamed up with Carver Mead (of the "Collective Electrodynamics" book,) for
some optical-bench photon experiments.
Go see this:
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/physics-professor-tackles-one-mystery-quantum-mechanics-times-flow/
...Mechanism of WaveFunction Collapse 8/2020
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11365.pdf
It's all about sharply-resonant oscillators (atoms) which can suddenly
"dump" all their energy, yet have it entirely go to just one distant,
identical atom, rather than spreading tiny bits to many atoms. The key is
some interference patterns with time-reversed EM waves, the effect causing
two distant atoms to "agree" to the full energy-dump (which was also RP
Feynman's first professional physics, w/adviser JA Wheeler.)
So, there are no photons after all, just EM waves?
ALso, here's Cramer's recent column in 1/2021 issue of Analog SF mag:
Wave Function Collapse Revealed
https://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw210.html
9/2001 Carver Mead interview
http://worrydream.com/refs/Mead%20-%20American%20Spectator%20Interview.html
John Cramer is famous for his unpopular non-Schrodinger, non-Copenhagan QM
theory called
"Transactional Interpretation of QM."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation
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