Can the Causal Paradoxes of QM be Explained in the Framework of QED?

Akitomo Tachibana

Wladimir Guglinski

Feynman’s Quantum Electrodynamics was developed by considering the reversion in time, which means that there is a violation in the causality: something in the future yields a happening in the past. Here we show that the paradox exists when one tries to understand the electron’s motion through a classical trajectory. However, by considering that the electron actually moves through a helical trajectory, the success of Feynman’s theory can be explained without considering the reversion in time.

D. Leiter

Noman Ahmed Shah

This paper presents the Temporal Fluid Multiverse (TFM) model, a unified theoretical framework that reinterprets time as a dynamic causal medium analogous to a fluid. Entities exist in two modes: actors, who interact with and alter the causal medium, and observers, who perceive its flow without influencing it. The model integrates established principles of relativity, thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics, particularly entropy and decoherence, to explain the directional nature of time and the emergence of parallel continua. It asserts that active reinsertion into a prior temporal state requires reconstruction of the entire causal medium, generating a new, divergent continuum. This resolves long-standing paradoxes of time travel and causality while maintaining consistency with physical law. The Temporal Fluid Multiverse characterizes observation as an informational coupling state bridging physics and perception within a coherent causal framework. The model is presented as an effective reinterpretation of known physical laws (consistent with General Relativity and quantum mechanics) and aims to describe emergent temporal behavior in regimes dominated by entropy production and decoherence.

G. C. Ghirardi, A. Rimini, T. Weber

Kenneth Howard Schatten

Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) has been extremely successful inits predictive capability for atomic phenomena. Thus the greatest hope for any alternative view is solely to mimic the predictive capability of quantum mechanics (QM), and perhaps its usefulness will lie in gaining a better understanding of microscopic phenomena. Many “paradoxes” and problematic situations emerge in QED. To combat the QED problems, the field of Stochastics Electrodynamics (SE) emerged, wherein a random “zero point radiation” is assumed to fill all of space in an attmept to explain quantum phenomena, without some of the paradoxical concerns. SE, however, has greater failings. One is that the electromagnetic field energy must be infinit eto work. We have examined a deterministic side branch of SE, “self field” electrodynamics, which may overcome the probelms of SE. Self field electrodynamics (SFE) utilizes the chaotic nature of electromagnetic emissions, as charges lose energy near atomic dimensions, to try to understand and mimic quantum phenomena. These fields and charges can “interact with themselves” in a non-linear fashion, and may thereby explain many quantum phenomena from a semi-classical viewpoint. Referred to as self fields, they have gone by other names in the literature: “evanesccent radiation”, “virtual photons”, and “vacuum fluctuations”. Using self fields, we discuss the uncertainty principles, the Casimir effects, and the black-body radiation spectrum, diffraction and interference effects, Schrodinger's equation, Planck's constant, and the nature of the electron and how they might be understood in the present framework. No new theory could ever replace QED. The self field view (if correct) would, at best, only serve to provide some understanding of the processes by which strange quantum phenomena occur at the atomic level. We discuss possible areas where experiments might be employed to test SFE, and areas where future work may lie.