QUANTUM MECHANICS – DETERMINISTIC VS. PROBABILISTIC

Abstract

A deterministic quantum mechanics theory is presented. The proposed theory is shown to be consistent with the current mainstream statistical quantum theory as well as with classical physics. It produces solutions that demonstrate that causality, physical reality, and determinism are restored and can explain in simple form concerns raised by results from the current mainstream statistical quantum theory. The meaning of particle-wave duality and complementarity, the possibility of a particle, like an electron, crossing through the nucleus as it does when the angular momentum of the electron is zero at the ground state of the hydrogen atom, the possibility of a point-size particle to have an “intrinsic spin,” the possibility of “quantum jumps” as the electron transitions instantaneously from one stable orbital to another without passing through the space in between the orbitals and does that at irregular time intervals. The natural collapse of the wave function as part of the solution is a result that emerges from the proposed deterministic quantum mechanics theory. The phenomenon of entanglement is also discussed in the context that information transfer between entangled “particles” does not occur in a superluminal fashion and is not a “spooky action at a distance” but rather the local measurement of global property. A linear stability method presents actual analytical solutions consistent with current mainstream quantum theory and classical physics. The Bohr-Schrödinger energy levels leading to the experimentally confirmed spectral lines and the fine structure constant emerge from an approximate solution to these equations.