Abstract
When I was a graduate student in 1958, I had a disagreement with my E & M teacher, Associate Professor Larry Biedenharn, the then-young hot-shot nuclear theorist who that year was teaching electromagnetic theory to us beginning physics graduate students at Rice University. In his lecture, he had just gone through the manipulation of Maxwell’s equations to produce the electromagnetic wave equation. He pointed out that the wave equation, because it was second-order in time, had two independent time solutions.
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The advanced solution of the wave equation is called “advanced” because the wave arrives before it departs, and time advances the wave’s phase; the more ordinary retarded solution arrives after it departs, and time retards the wave’s phase.
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My Masters Thesis observing parity non-conservation in the \(^{8}\)Li decay won the Rice Best Thesis Award for 1959.
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The term “modern physics” is an anachronistic colloquialism of the physics community, meaning special relativity, introductory quantum mechanics, and atomic and nuclear structure and behavior. The term refers to the post-classical physics that was “modern” when it was developed in the early 20th century, almost 100 years ago.
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We note that despite its title, Kastner’s book introduces the possibilist transactional interpretation, a variant of the Transactional Interpretation presented here that attempts to explain quantum nonlocality in a qualitatively different way.
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At least, in the Copenhagen view, the waves would abruptly disappear. From the viewpoint of the Transactional Interpretation, presented here, they would keep on going to other locations and send confirmation waves back to Boston.
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Cramer, J.G. (2016). Introduction. In: The Quantum Handshake. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24642-0_1
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