ANNOTATED RESEARCH INDEX
Read the arguments we were told were finished.
Allies and executioners live on the same page. A reconstruction program that hides the hostile experiments is useless.
Constructive classical and semiclassical work
T. H. Boyer (1969), Derivation of the Blackbody Radiation Spectrum without Quantum AssumptionsCanonical demonstration that the Rayleigh–Jeans failure is not logically identical to failure of every classical radiation theory.
T. H. Boyer (1975), Random electrodynamicsMaxwell–Lorentz dynamics with Lorentz-invariant classical zero-point radiation.
França, Marshall & Santos (1992), Spontaneous emission in confined space according to SEDA concrete zero-point-field calculation compared with cavity-modified spontaneous-decay experiments.
Semiclassical random electrodynamics: spontaneous emission and the Lamb shift (1999)Classical zero-point field plus quantum matter reproduces the Einstein A coefficient and nonrelativistic Lamb-shift result; important but not a fully classical matter theory.
Picinbono & Bendjaballah (2005), Characterization by photodetection statisticsShows how antibunching can be represented at the detection point-process level if coincidence probability is not identified with the standard classical-field correlation. A detector-model opening, not a complete ontology.
M. J. W. Hall (2010), Local deterministic singlet model with relaxed measurement independenceExplicit proof that Bell correlations can be represented locally and deterministically once measurement independence is quantitatively relaxed.
Hossenfelder & Palmer (2020), Rethinking SuperdeterminismArgues that measurement-dependent fundamental models deserve physical model-building rather than dismissal as a verbal loophole.
J. W. M. Bush (2015), Pilot-Wave HydrodynamicsClassical macroscopic system displaying path memory, quantized-like states and wave-guided particles; analogy is evidence of mechanism-space, not identity with electrons.
T. H. Boyer (1972), London–van der Waals forces from classical electrodynamics + zero-point radiationExplicit unretarded dispersion-force derivation within classical Maxwell–Lorentz dynamics plus a Lorentz-invariant stochastic background.
T. H. Boyer (1973), retarded van der Waals forcesExtends the program to retarded forces and compares directly with nonrelativistic QED results.
A. A. Stahlhofen (2000), photonic tunneling in FTIRTreats frustrated total internal reflection explicitly as the classical analog of quantum tunneling; supports the generic evanescent-barrier analogy, not electron-statistics equivalence.
Hooker, Greene & Clark (1997), classical Stark effect in hydrogenClassical trajectories reproduce the linear Stark shift well for appropriate initial conditions but fail for the quadratic effect outside the correspondence regime.
Sadana et al. (2019), near-100% HOM-like dip with classical fieldsShows that the familiar 50% HOM visibility limit is assumption-bound: phase-controlled classical pulses can mimic the dip, while complementarity remains discriminating.
Hard exclusions and failure surfaces
J. F. Clauser (1974), Experimental distinction for the photoelectric effectContradicts classical/semiclassical photodetection models in which emission probability is proportional to classical intensity. Any reconstruction must go beyond this cheap model.
H. Paul (1982), Photon antibunchingThe canonical case that standard classical optical fields plus conventional photodetection cannot produce antibunching.
Hensen et al. (2015), Loophole-free Bell inequality violationCloses the ordinary locality/detection escape route for Bell-local measurement-independent models in the tested scenario.
T. M. Nieuwenhuizen (2020), SED hydrogen ground-state problemFrom within the classical program: standard SED hydrogen self-ionizes. A direct warning against turning SED into dogma.
Kashi et al. (2021), Hong–Ou–Mandel interference beyond the classical visibility benchmarkMeasured visibilities above the familiar 50% classical limit; a quantitative target for any field-plus-detector reconstruction.
Interpretive and historiographical controls
Brunner et al. (2014), Bell nonlocalityAuthoritative map of the theorem, experimental program and model classes. Use it to prevent sloppy “Bell proved X” slogans on either side.
Niaz (2010), History of the photoelectric effectDocuments how textbook compression removes the controversy between confirming Einstein’s equation and accepting the photon hypothesis.
R. L. Jaffe (2005), The Casimir Effect and the Quantum VacuumExplains why Casimir measurements need not be interpreted as direct empirical proof of vacuum zero-point energy.
Adam Forrest Kay, Escape from Shadow PhysicsA recent polemical realist critique useful precisely because it refuses the assumption that formal quantum success settles physical ontology.
Search machinery
Udrescu & Tegmark (2020), AI FeynmanDemonstrates physics-inspired symbolic regression recovering compact equations from numerical data.
Brunton & Kutz (2024), machine learning for PDEsReviews governing-equation discovery, reduced coordinates and learned solution operators for physical PDE systems.
AlphaEvolve (2025)Evaluator-driven generation and evolutionary improvement of executable programs; architectural precedent for generate–execute–score–mutate research loops.
Editorial law
The bibliography expands in two directions at once: the strongest reconstruction attempts and the experiments most likely to kill them. We do not win by citation count. We win only when one coherent dynamics survives the red cells on the Q1–Q5 scoreboard.