New Structures for Physics

N.N. Leonov

Failures in solving a number of physical problems associated with the structure of the microworld began due to two fundamental mistakes made in the old classical physics, when interpreting the results of the experiments of Oersted (1821) and Fizeau (1851). Because of them, it was not possible to develop a detailed understanding of the true structure of the atom; this was due to the inability of physicists to eliminate the indicated fundamental errors. Blaming the “classical” Newtonian methods for this failure, physicists proceeded to build a “new” physics - quantum theory and theories of relativity. Without realizing this, they brought into the new physics old fundamental errors that entered the paradigms of the new physics and made them inadequate. This is illustrated with specific examples.

Samuel K. K. Blankson

Erik Drebenstedt

The Observer Frequency Structure Interpretation (OFSI) is an interpretative hypothesis addressing foundational aspects of the quantum measurement process within standard quantum mechanics. It introduces no new physical theory, no new dynamics or equations, and no new quantitative predictions. OFSI interprets the measurement transition not as a pointlike ontological collapse, but as a structured reduction of dynamical accessibility of quantum state information through coupling and stabilization. The concepts employed serve solely as structural and interpretative tools and possess no independent physical or ontological status. OFSI is fully consistent with standard quantum mechanics and aims to provide a coherent interpretative account of the quantum-to-classical transition without extending existing physics. Status: Stable release (Version 1.0). Interpretative hypothesis.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Holger Lyre, Thomas Görnitz

Marisa Michelini, Giacomo Zuccarini

Learning quantum mechanics entails adopting a new reference frame for the physical interpretation of the world.The quantum perspective is intrinsically connected with math, which becomes a sort of referent for physical meaning, requiring the employment of new formal structures and a new interpretation of familiar ones.Research evidences that students have difficulty both with concepts and with the use of formalism in qualitative tasks.We administered a 15-item questionnaire focused on incompatibility of observables and related formal structures to 40 physics students of three Italian universities.Semi-structured interviews were scheduled on a subset of students.Results concerning translation processes between math and physical meaning show that most students only look at the square modulus in order to reason on physical information encoded in quantum state, thus neglecting phase relations and their connection with incompatibility.