The Solution to the Problem of there being NO Vector Wave Solutions of Maxwell's Equations in Spherical Co-ordinates

James Maxwell (1876) used the experimental (empirical) results of Faraday, Coulomb, etc. to develop four equations, now famous, whose solutions described an electromagnetic (e-m) wave which correctly deduced the velocity of light c. Maxwell was correct that light is a wave traveling with velocity c - but it is a wave developed from the interaction of the IN and OUT waves of two spherical standing waves whose Wave-Centers are bound in resonant standing wave patterns. (Thus it is the interaction of four waves which probably explains why there are four Maxwell Equations.)

The Maxwell's Equations (M.E.), which describe the formation of electric fields E by a charge distribution q and changing magnetic fields H, as well as the formation of the H field by a changing E and electric currents i, cannot describe a spherical electromagnetic wave! It is a mathematical fact that there are no wave solutions of the M.E.s in spherical co-ordinates! Only the scalar 'quantum' wave equation has spherical wave solutions. Similarly, there are no imaginable M.E. solutions for a 'photon particle'. It is clear that the M.E.s are not fundamental and the photon is only a mathematical construction.

The failure of the M.E. in spherical co-ordinates can be imagined by saying, You cannot comb the hair on a tennis ball. This means that if you attempt to comb down an E field (the hair representing the electric vector) everywhere flat onto a tennis ball (a spherical surface), you must create a 'cowlick' somewhere on the ball which frustrates your attempt to comb it.

The questions arise, Why did theorists continue to favour the e-m field, the photon, and M.E. for 70 years in spite of the well-known flagrant failure of the mathematical description to agree with observation? Why were alternative descriptions of nature not sought? We suspect the answer is because it worked once the errors were removed with a bit of 'hocus pocus' mathematics and the aid of empirical data.
Unfortunately, this logical positivist view to retain the point particle and vector force fields has been the root cause of the many paradoxes and mysteries surrounding quantum theory. The resulting confusion has been increasingly exploited in the popular press. Instead of searching for the simple behaviour of nature, the physics community found that 'wave-particle duality' was an exciting launching pad for more complex proposals that found support from government funding agencies. The search for truth was put into limbo and wave-particle duality reigned.

Once we understand though, that the particle theory of matter is a mathematical (logical positivist) description of nature, then it becomes less confusing. Essentially the particle is a mathematical construction to describe energy exchange. It says nothing about the energy exchange mechanism and thus makes no comment about how the particle exists, how it moves through Space, what the Space around the particle is made of, and how matter particles 'emit' and 'absorb' photon particles with other matter particles distant in Space.Quantum-Physics