Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Reality of the Orbits of Particles

Nina B. Sotina

Abstract This work presents a further development of causal interpretation of quantum mechanics. Existence of ‘non-local hidden variables’ like a physical field is taken as an assumption. Under this assumption, on the basis of the causal approach it is proven that Schrödinger equation is a necessary condition for stability of the motion of a particle. For the case of a hydrogen atom this approach gives a mathematical base with which to suggest that (1) the electron’s spin in an atom is precessing; (2) the energy of the precessional motion on Bohr orbits satisfies the Rydberg formula, and (3) structures are formed in the physical vacuum which stabilize the motion of an electron on Bohr orbits.

Saul T. Epstein

Yu. P. Rybakov

Jean Pierre Vigier

Christopher Dewdney

Basil J. Hiley, F. David Peat

In relation to this debate perhaps the greatest significance and contribution of Bohm's causal interpretation of quantum mechanics 3 is that it not only exposes the arbitrary philosophical assumptions underlying the claims of the Copenhagen interpretation but also brings into relief the essentially new content of quantum mechanics, which is reflected in different ways in Bohr's interpretation. Indeed the claim that the quantum formalism itself requires us not only to abandon the quest for explanation of quantum phenomena but also the concepts of causality, continuity and the objective reality of individual micro-objects, is shown to be false. However the existence of the single counter-interpretation proposed by Bohm constitutes sufficient grounds for rejecting the absolute and final necessity of complementary description and indeterminacy, along with the inherent unanalysable and closed nature of quantum phenomena.