Abstract
Spinor equations, previously found valid and interesting in dealing with plane waves of light, are applied to spherical waves. It is found that the spinors pertaining to light do not form outgoing spherical waves, as the vectors do, but they can form standing spherical waves, which the vectors usually cannot. The spinors disclose details (“hidden variables”) which are hidden from the accepted theories of the subatomic scale.
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Perkins, G.A. A spinor equation of the pure electromagnetic field. II. Found Phys 14, 341–349 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00738923
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