Hi I am working on the same subjects, but have not written down much yet.
You may like http://www.thresholdmodel.com/
He shows with experiments that Einstein's idea of light-particles was wrong. That is because sometimes you can have 2 detections while there is only one "particle" transmitted. This works better with ultraviolet and can even be done with nuclear particles.
It would be nice to have some more verifications. But in mainstream papers there are indeed double detections. It is done away with as noise. According to the experimenter the noise increases with the frequency of the light or particles.
The threshold model assumes that there are no particles at all. The energy is spread over the area. The detectors start with a random initial level.
If a certain amount of energy is reached, the detector reaches the threshold. This means gives off a signal that we can measure.
Lets say initial state:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
State after receiving energy:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Detection of "particle" at X:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 X
So there is a hidden state at the detector. This works with all experiments of quantum mechanics that I have seen. The experiments exclude a hidden variable in the particles, but not hidden variables in the detectors.
But this also means that Einstein's and Plank's assumption of particles was wrong to begin with. From the website I read that Plank had first thought of this threshold solution, but had omitted it, because he thought that all energy states started at zero.
I don't know if this theory always works, we still have to test that better. But it is the simplest solution for quantum mechanics that also gives a very simple way to calculate results. With Occham's Razor it wipes all other options off the table. With simulations it makes everything suddenly very simple.
Anyway, thanks for writing out the history.
Thank you for reading and for your insightful comment! It's always nice to find more evidence that supports my opinion while at the same time deepening my understand of the subject. I'll check that link out now