Some new ideas in physics

Foundations of Science, 2016

The aim of science is the explanation of complicated systems by reducing it to simple subsystems. According to a millennia-old imagination this will be attained by dividing matter into smaller and smaller pieces of it. The popular superstition that smallness implies simplicity seems to be ineradicable. However, since the beginning of quantum theory it would be possible to realize that the circumstances in nature are exactly the other way round. The idea "smaller becomes simpler" is useful only down to the atoms of chemistry. Planck's formula shows that smaller extensions are related to larger energies. That more and more energy should result in simpler and simpler structures, this does not only sound absurd, it is absurd. A reduction to really simple structures leads one to smallest energies and, thus, to utmost extended quantum systems. The simplest quantum structure, referred to as quantum bit, has a two-dimensional state space, and it establishes a cosmological structure. Taking many of such quantum bits allows also for the construction of localized particles. The nonlocalized fraction of quantum bits can appear as "dark matter".

2021

In this paper, an alternative formalism for modeling physics is proposed. The motivation for this approach arises from the tension between the countable (discrete) nature of empirical data and the uncountable sets (continuous functions) that form the foundations of modern physical theories. The foundation of this alternative formalism is the set of all base-2 sequences of length n. While this set is countable for finite n, it becomes uncountable in the limit that n goes to infinity, providing a viable pathway to correspondence with current theories. The mathematical construction necessary to model physics is developed by considering relationships among different base-2 sequences. Upon choosing a reference base-2 sequence, a relational system of numbers can be defined. Based on the properties of these relational numbers, the rules of angular momentum addition in quantum mechanics can be derived from first principles along with an alternative representation of the Clebsch-Gordan coeff...

2001

The early successes of physics, starting with the work of Galileo, Kepler and Newton, and continuing up to the beginning of the twentieth century, dealt primarily with things that were at least large enough to see and handle. This is the world of our intuition and common sense. Everyone who has learned to play billiards, for example, knows instinctively the Newtonian concepts of force, impulse, momentum, and energy. He or she may not be able to express these ideas mathematically, but in fact the equations only express in a quantitative mathematical way those things that every billiard player knows intuitively and physiologically. The physics of things that are very small, on the other hand, such as atoms, molecules and elementary particles, was developed more recently starting with the work of Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, Werner Heisenberg and others during the 1920’s. We call this body of theory quantum mechanics; and by now it has been verified in so many ways that its validity ...

American Journal of Physics, 1979

We reformulate the problem of the "interpretation of quantum mechanics" as the problem of DERIVING the quantum mechanical formalism from a set of simple physical postulates. We suggest that the common unease with taking quantum mechanics as a fundamental description of nature could derive from the use of an incorrect notion, as the unease with the Lorentz transformations before Einstein derived from the notion of observer independent time. Following an an analysis of the measurement process as seen by different observers, we propose a reformulation of quantum mechanics in terms of INFORMATION THEORY. We propose three different postulates out of which the formalism of the theory can be reconstructed; these are based on the notion of information about each other that systems contain. All systems are assumed to be equivalent: no observer-observed distinction, and information is interpreted as correlation. We then suggest that the incorrect notion that generates the unease with quantum mechanichs is the notion of OBSERVER INDEPENDENT state of a system.

The quantum paradigm as a discreet method of describing the structure of the material world, fundamentally based on quantum mechanics, is in contradiction with the electromagnetic theory of light. Promoting a mechanical vision of subatomic phenomena has been a step backwards in knowledge by going back to a convoluted theory regarding the corpuscular character of light which was extended over the structure of the material world. The complexity of the processuality of the material world as a unity between the discreet corpuscular character and the continuous electromagnetic manifestations reveal a new theory of the physical reality, in a complex epistemic vision, in which the two ontological entities are not mutually exclusive, but rather they coexist in a unified theoretical system explained by a new electrodynamic approach of the material world which reveals a spatiotemporal universe is both knowable and predictable.

Contemporary Physics, 2019

discrete, indivisible packets or "quanta" of energy. Prior to 1900 physicists pictured the atom as a nucleus that looked something like a plum to which were attached tiny protruding springs. (This was the atomic model hypothesised by J J Thomson and named the plum pudding model ). At the end of each spring was an electron. Giving the atom a jolt, by heating it, for instance, caused its electrons to jiggle (oscillate) on the ends of their springs.

We put forward a possible new interpretation and explanatory framework for quantum theory. The basic hypothesis underlying this new framework is that quantum particles are conceptual entities. More concretely, we propose that quantum particles interact with ordinary matter, nuclei, atoms, molecules, macroscopic material entities, measuring apparatuses, ..., in a similar way to how human concepts interact with memory structures, human minds or artificial memories. We analyze the most characteristic aspects of quantum theory, i.e. entanglement and non-locality, interference and superposition, identity and individuality in the light of this new interpretation, and we put forward a specific explanation and understanding of these aspects. The basic hypothesis of our framework gives rise in a natural way to a Heisenberg uncertainty principle which introduces an understanding of the general situation of 'the one and the many' in quantum physics. A specific view on macro and micro different from the common one follows from the basic hypothesis and leads to an analysis of Schrodinger's Cat paradox and the measurement problem different from the existing ones. We reflect about the influence of this new quantum interpretation and explanatory framework on the global nature and evolutionary aspects of the world and human worldviews, and point out potential explanations for specific situations, such as the generation problem in particle physics, the confinement of quarks and the existence of dark matter.

Topoi, 2015

Quantum theory is the theoretical basis of modern physics that explains the nature and behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level. The nature and behavior of matter and energy at that level is sometimes referred to as quantum physics and quantum mechanics.