India, Aug. 21 -- India PR Distribution

New Delhi [India], August 21: During a scientific seminar organised by the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) on the 18th August, Dr. Dhiraj Sinha, a faculty member at Plaksha University, delivered a lecture titled "Emergence of Einstein's Photons from Maxwell's Fields". His talk was based on a recent article he published in Annals of Physics (Vol. 473, 169893, 2025).

Dr. Sinha spoke at length on how the particle nature of light, defined by photons, is deeply rooted in classical electromagnetic fields expressed through Maxwell's equations. A subtle message from his discourse was that light's particle nature is an emergent behaviour as a consequence of its int...