Feynman in his Nobel lecture described a formulation of classical electrodynamics that did not use electromagnetic waves where charged particles acts directly o

Feynman in his Nobel lecture described a formulation of classical electrodynamics that did not use electromagnetic waves where charged particles acts directly on each other. He tried to apply that to the quantum case, but eventually gave up. Still if such formulation is possible than the light that apparently reaches the philosopher from the food is an artifact of a model.