BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sergey Rashkovskiy (RAS) DTSTART:20230715T140000Z DTEND:20230715T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260423T010857Z UID:QMFNoT/49 DESCRIPTION:Title: Quantum Mechanics: Strange Particle Theory or Classical Field Theory?\ nby Sergey Rashkovskiy (RAS) as part of QM Foundations & Nature of Time se minar\n\n\nAbstract\nIn the late 19th and early 20th century\, physicists came to the conclusion that phenomena such as (i) thermal radiation\; (ii) photoelectric effect\; (iii) the Compton effect\; (iv) the structure of t he atom and its stability\; (v) the discrete spectrum of spontaneous emiss ion and the very nature of spontaneous emission\; (vi) anomalous Zeeman ef fect\; (vii) the Stern-Gerlach effect and a number of other atomic phenome na cannot be described within the framework of classical mechanics and cla ssical electrodynamics\, i.e. within the framework of a theory in which th e electron is considered a classical charged particle that obeys Newton's laws of motion\, and its interaction with an electromagnetic field is desc ribed by Maxwell's laws of classical electrodynamics. As a result of a rel atively short search\, the main ideas were formulated that formed the basi s of modern quantum theory: (a) electromagnetic radiation is quantized\, b oth at the moment of radiation and when interacting with matter (atoms)\; (b) an electron in an atom can only be in discrete states\, transitions be tween which (spontaneous or forced) are accompanied by the emission or abs orption of a quantum of electromagnetic radiation - a photon. The pinnacle of the development of quantum theory was the discovery of the Schrödinge r equation and its extended forms - the Pauli\, Klein-Gordon and Dirac equ ations. These equations have proven their predictive power in relation to many so-called quantum phenomena. Thus\, on the one hand\, the electron be gan to be described by a certain field - a wave function\, continuously di stributed in space and time\, satisfying the wave equations\, and on the o ther hand\, continued to be considered as a point charged particle. As a r esult\, a number of paradoxes have arisen that have not found a final expl anation within the framework of orthodox quantum mechanics. I briefly anal yze the well-known paradoxes of quantum mechanics and their interpretation s and show that in order to explain the paradoxes that have arisen\, the a dherents of wave-particle duality were forced to introduce new hypothetica l physical objects or hypothetical phenomena that led to the emergence of new paradoxes. As a result\, the number of paradoxes in quantum mechanics has multiplied exponentially.\n\nAt present\, the point of view is conside red official\, according to which the above mentioned phenomena cannot be described within the framework of the concepts of classical physics\, i.e. without energy quantization and without using the apparatus of quantum el ectrodynamics.\n\nI show that we can avoid the QM-paradoxes if we consider some classical wave field (“an electron wave”) instead of electron as a particle and consider the wave equations (Dirac\, Klein-Gordon\, Pauli and Schrödinger) as the field equations for an electron field similar to Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic field.\n\nI show that such an el ectron field has an electric charge\, an intrinsic angular momentum (spin) and an intrinsic magnetic moment continuously distributed in the space.\n \nIn the framework of classical electrodynamics\, we obtained the nonlinea r Schrödinger equation\, which accounts for the inverse action of self-el ectromagnetic radiation of the electron wave. I show that this equation co mpletely and consistently describes all known properties of the hydrogen a tom within the framework of classical field theory without any quantizatio n and additional hypothesis: namely\, the stability of an atom\, the natur e and regularities of the spontaneous emissions of an atom\, a light-atom interactions\, the photoelectric effect\, the Compton effect\, the thermal radiation\, etc. In particular\, Planck’s law for the spectral energy d ensity of thermal radiation and the Einstein A-coefficient for spontaneous emission are derived in the framework of classical field theory without u sing the concept of “photon”.\n\nI show that the conventional corpuscu lar-statistical interpretation of atomic phenomena is only a misinterpreta tion of continuous deterministic processes.\n\nThese results show that qua ntum mechanics must be considered to be not a theory of particles but a cl assical field theory in the spirit of classical electrodynamics.\n\nIn con clusion\, I show how Dirac equation can be coupled with Maxwell equation i n order to construct the self-consistent Maxwell-Dirac theory.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/QMFNoT/49/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR