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The possibility of a classical interpretation of the QM
wavefunction has been a persistent interest. Though I
have dabbled at a solution eg, 'Dirac's Equation in 1+1 D from a Classical Random Walk',
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Vol. 10 1-16 1999, I
have a much higher regard for the efforts of the other
attendees at the forum who have addressed this issue,
and am looking forward to learning about their insights.
In pursuit of this goal I came to
suspect that a satisfactory classical picture might
emerge if one was willing to accept the possibility of a
non-local origin to mass. As a consequence I became
interested in Dirac's large number 'coincidence'
relating electron mass to the local (present) value of
the Hubble constant. It led me to consider a ZPF-related
mechanism, but without any consideration of
compatible and viable cosmologies. Subsequently, a the
direct-action version of EM seemed to offer the best
hope of an EM basis for mass and gravity. Currently my
best hope for the latter lies in a ZPF-like
model wherein a strong version of the van der Waals
force is mediated by a more or less coherent
background field at the Compton frequency, present at
zero Kelvin.
With the cosmology
problem still outstanding, I have continued to look for
a possible electromagnetic mechanism underpinning non-locally
originated mass. For various reasons this led
(accidentally) to an un-renormalized version of the direct action formulation of formulation of EM,
Annals of Physics,
Vol. 321 261-305 2006, hinting at a viable purely
electromagnetic explanation for mass, which demanded
however, superluminal motion of the source.
Interestingly, with a slight
modification to standard EM, the superluminal
behavior of erstwhile electrons (and positrons) starts
to look more like that of quarks, with electrons then a
special case at light speed.
My talks will be on:
1) The possible connection between quarks and
superluminal motion.
2) How Direct Action might be a foundation for an EM
theory of gravity.
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