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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Is Quantum World beyond the Physical Reality?

The quantum reality is so weird as compared to the ordinary classical pictures that hardly anybody talks openly about its very existence. For most physicists the mathematical formalism of such quantum mechanics that talks.

Most physicists, who look at the quantum particles' behavior, think that they are dealing with rigid body mechanics.  They are all wrong. The quantum mechanics is closer to fluid mechanics rather than the rigid body mechanics. Just as in fluid mechanics, we are dealing with a continuum rather than a single particle, and therefore, there is no need to keep track of individual particles.

In quantum mechanics, one should not pose a question like: "What is the position in the space of a [quantum] particle as a function of time?" Rather,  it is more appropriate to ask: “At some point in space what is the velocity, acceleration, and thermodynamic properties at that point in space as a function of time?” The mathematical model used to describe such mechanics is called Eulerian as opposed to Lagrangian which is used to keep track of an individual particle as in rigid body dynamics1.   

It should be noted, however, that in quantum mechanics we are not dealing with a movement in bulk but on the surface of the fluid (Figure-1A). We recall that the real world we live in could be modeled as a 3-hypersurface or more precisely a hyper-interface located in between two oceans of the opposing energies (Figure-1B).

At such surface, all of the quantum particles movements are up and down just like the movement of particles in the individual water wave propagating along the surface of a still pond. The up and down motions are the projection of the quantum circular movements whose circumference equal to quantum action, Planck number (h), and whose radius is equal to Dirac's Planck number.  

So, there is no such a quantum particle flies forward as a bullet does. What physicists perceive as a single quantum particle enduring in time [regardless whether it is moving or in rest] is, in fact, different ephemeral particles successively appearing and disappearing as time passes by.

To give a clear picture of this phenomenon, let us cite a child story about the imbalanced race between the deer and snails.  Here is the excerpt: in the middle of the jungle there lived a smart deer that had defeated all but some of the inhabitants.  It happened that in the darkness of twilight the deer was unintentionally about to step on a snail unseen behind the grasses. The angry little creature challenged him to race by the following day, which the deer confidently accepted.

During the night, the petite snail coordinated hundreds of his friends to stand in line under-covered behind the grasses along the racing path. As the race progressed, the deer  was wondering about the position of his rival and shouted: “Hello dear friend, where are you?” The snail which stood just in front of him responded: “I am here.” The deer was bewildered and so repeatedly monitored from time to time up to the final point. After that, he was always agitated as nobody told him about the secret of the presence of so many snails that he had thought as a single one.

Another but much more old metaphor on the quantum reality teaches us about the universe which resembles a gigantic flame of a candle. Like the flame, the world is always changing and never be the same at any instant of time. The whole world and all its contents are perpetually created and annihilated. As in Galilean dynamics,  we may interpret that the physical space evaporates completely as one moment passes, and reappears as a completely different space as the next moment arrives2

Figure-2 shows the schematic description of the physical space represented as a 3-front wave propagates across the 4-surface (spacetime). The wave (3-space) disappears completely as one moment passes, and reappears as a completely different wave as the next a moment arrives; and so the front wave is propagating forwards with time. 




Finally, we come to a more detail subject which combines the phenomena of hydrodynamics with electromagnetism. As the wave is propagating between two oceans of the positive and negative energies, we deal with some sorts of magnetohydrodynamics which takes into account the interaction of electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields (Figure-3).
The perpetual creation and annihilation of quantum particle and its anti-particle, as well as the classical fields, is the result of some sorts of interactions of quantum fields and the hyper-interface (brane). The interplay  between that two opposite "electrically"  conducting fluids generates the quantum fields. 
The result is that we get a sort of cosmic motion picture where the images are projected on a gigantic screen (3-brane) in which the images perpetually appear and disappear altogether with the screen at the rate of 1044 images per second. The projected images stand for the whole content of the universe: planets, stars, galaxies, super-galaxies, a cluster of galaxies and so forth. 
References:
1.   Hughes, W. F., and Brighton, J. A.: "Fluid Dynamics," Schaum's Outline Series, New York, 1967, p. 2.
2.     Penrose, R.: "The Road to Reality," Vintage Books, London, 2004, p. 387.




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