Particle Interference and The Causal Space-Time Description of Atomic Phenomena

Wolfram Schommers

Amy Malady

Quantum mechanics successfully predicts experimental outcomes, yet its geometric and causal interpretation remains an open area of foundational inquiry. Concepts such as superposition, interference, and decoherence are frequently described as intrinsically probabilistic or nonclassical, often leaving unresolved whether these behaviors reflect fundamental randomness or limitations of our representational framework. This paper proposes a geometric reinterpretation in which quantum phenomena arise from the projection of a deeper causal structure into observer-dependent frames. Through thought experiments only, this work explores the possible literal interpretation of an orthogonal space-causal frame of reference, associated with null propagation, within a physical tradition otherwise strongly rooted in time-causal description. In our familiar time-causal frame, time is treated as the ordered causal axis and space as a volumetric domain of alternatives. Introduced here is a complementary space-causal frame, in which space becomes the ordered causal axis while time forms a volumetric domain of alternatives. Within this framework, superposition, interference, and decoherence emerge as consequences of geometric constraint rather than physical collapse. This approach preserves relativistic causality, introduces no additional dimensions, and leaves experimental predictions unchanged while offering a unified conceptual account of quantum behavior.

James T. Cushing

In previous chapters we presented and discussed the standard, generally accepted Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics according to which there exists in nature at the most fundamental level an irreducible and ineliminable indeterminism. Although we saw that what historically constituted the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is difficult to specify with precision, three central commitments do characterize it. (1) In general, no particle trajectories can exist in a space–time background. (2) No deterministic description of fundamental physical phenomena is possible. (3) There exists in the laws of the fundamental physical phenomena of nature an essential and ineliminable indeterminism or probability (unlike the probability of classical physics, that there reflects our ignorance of the finer details of complex physical phenomena). A flavor of these features of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics can be gotten from the quotations at the beginning of Part VIII ( Some philosophical lessons from quantum mechanics ). On this view, it is in principle impossible to predict, say, the exact future behavior of an electron (that is, to give its position and velocity as functions of the time). According to the Copenhagen school, there can be no causal description of microphenomena in terms of a continuous space–time background (as there is in classical physics). It is generally believed that a causal interpretation of quantum mechanics is impossible, although no proof of this exists.

Saul T. Epstein

É. Papp

Vladimir Konushko

An investigation into real structure of space allows solving in a new way the problem of stability of atom: an electron on the ground level is a rest. The absolute causality of all the phenomena in the Universe is substantiated. Heisenberg inequalities make some sense only when it is impossible to conjugated physical values. The work is concern with the mystery of interference and hyroscope.