The Theory of Mutual Energy Flow Proves that Macroscopic Electromagnetic Waves are Composed of Photons

Shuang-ren Zhao^1,

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Shuang-ren Zhao. The Theory of Mutual Energy Flow Proves that Macroscopic Electromagnetic Waves are Composed of Photons. International Journal of Physics. 2022; 10(4):218-235. doi: 10.12691/ijp-10-4-4

Abstract

In the author’s electromagnetic field theory the theory about the mutual energy flow, there is a 90 degree phase difference between the electric field and the magnetic field of the electromagnetic wave. The author calls this electromagnetic wave reactive power wave. The author thinks that the far field of electromagnetic wave emitted by transmitting antenna is reactive power wave. This is different from Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory. If the radiation of the transmitting antenna is reactive power, the reader will ask, how does the antenna radiate electromagnetic waves? In fact, in the author’s electromagnetic field theory, the receiving antenna and the absorber of the environment also generate radiation. This radiation is a advanced wave. Therefore, electromagnetic wave has two kinds of current elements. One is the radiation source, including the transmitting antenna, the primary coil of the transformer, and the radiator charge. One is sink, including receiving antenna, secondary coil of transformer and absorber charge. The retarded wave generated by the source and the advanced wave generated by the sink together constitute the mutual energy flow. The mutual energy flow has all the properties of photons and can be regarded as photons themselves. It is mutual energy flow photons that constitute electromagnetic radiation. The author’s electromagnetic theory and Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory have different starting points and different calculation results. But the author tries to consider a transmitting antenna based on the author’s electromagnetic theory, and consider that the boundary of the universe or the sphere with infinite radius is filled with materials that absorb electromagnetic waves. These absorber materials can radiate advanced waves and thereby absorb electromagnetic waves. Therefore, there are two kinds of current elements in this system, one is the source at the coordinate origin, and the other is the current element of the absorber charge distributed on the spherical surface with infinite radius. With two current elements, the electromagnetic field can be calculated by the method of mutual energy theory proposed by the author, and the energy flow from the source to the absorber on the sphere can be calculated accordingly. In this paper, it is proved that the radiant energy obtained by the author’s method is consistent with the Poynting vector energy flow obtained by Maxwell’s method. The author believes that Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory must take into account the far field boundary condition, namely the Sliver Mueller condition. In fact, this condition has implied that the boundary of the universe is full of absorber charges. In principle, the author considers that there are N charges in an empty universe. In the author’s electromagnetic theory, the interaction can only come from the charge inside the sphere. If we consider the absorber charge distributed on the large spherical surface with infinite radius in the author’s electromagnetic theory, we should get the same or almost the same conclusion as Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory. This paper tries to prove this point.

Keywords:
Poynting theorem Maxwell’s equation retarded wave advanced wave mutual energy sliver Mueller condition

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