DOES QUANTUM MECHANICS EXCLUDE LIFE

Marcello Cini

M. P. Ageno

MEENAKSHI SUNDAR S

Many scientists with their profound knowledge worked for the development of the modern sophisticated easy life that we are living, enjoying now. It would be phenomenal to collect and remember serially the people behind the works. It would be phenomenal to note and know their contributions to the ScienceWorld.

Helmut Rechenberg

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Erwin Schrodinger, an outline of his life and work is presented, together with an analysis of the steps that led him to wave mechanics.

P. T. Landsberg

Richard Joseph Oldani

We reexamine the original derivations of quantum mechanics, published 100 years ago, to test the accuracy of the formulations and the logic underlying them, and we find that attempts were not made to describe atomic processes continuously in time. To correct this omission we show that matrix mechanics clearly describes the continuous absorption of thermal energy that causes the hydrogen line spectra, where energy and cause follow the same path. When the same methods are used to inspect the emission process as determined by the wave function we find that energy and cause do not follow the same path. We conclude that failure to follow strict causality is the reason that the wave function is neither physical nor real. Energy-cause superposition is hypothesized to be a universal principle of nature, true not only for atomic systems but for material systems throughout the cosmos and for life as well. It is also equivalent to the action principle, ∫Ldt, which is fundamental to all of physics.