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Wave-Particle Duality, Quantum Tunneling, and the Physical Origins of Planck's and Boltzmann's Constants

Pavel Banic

Published Jul 10, 2026• 0 citations
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This component archives the twelfth theoretical preprint of the Redefined Mass unified field theory. This paper resolves the physical origins of fundamental quantum constants and wave-particle duality, replacing statistical probability with deterministic fluid dynamics. It demonstrates that Planck's constant (h) is the physical phase-slip circulation quantum of the virtual boson BEC boundary, while Boltzmann's constant (k_B) defines the thermodynamic limit of boundary-to-plasma transitions. Furthermore, it establishes Postulate XVII, providing an electrodynamic resolution to quantum tunneling: a particle passing through a dense solid momentarily dissolves its geometric mass boundary into pure coherent field-energy (the wave state) to navigate the atomic lattice, subsequently undergoing vacuum re-nucleation (reconstructing the particle state) upon exiting the perturbing fields.

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10.17605/osf.io/cuxfp

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This component archives the twelfth theoretical preprint of the Redefined Mass unified field theory. This paper resolves the physical origins of fundamental quantum constants and wave-particle duality, replacing statistical probability with deterministic fluid dynamics. It demonstrates that Planck's constant (h) is the physical phase-slip circulation quantum of the virtual boson BEC boundary, while Boltzmann's constant (k_B) defines the thermodynamic limit of boundary-to-plasma transitions. Furthermore, it establishes Postulate XVII, providing an electrodynamic resolution to quantum tunneling: a particle passing through a dense solid momentarily dissolves its geometric mass boundary into pure coherent field-energy (the wave state) to navigate the atomic lattice, subsequently undergoing vacuum re-nucleation (reconstructing the particle state) upon exiting the perturbing fields.
This component archives the twelfth theoretical preprint of the Redefined Mass unified field theory. This paper resolves the physical origins of fundamental quantum constants and wave-particle duality, replacing statistical probability with deterministic fluid dynamics. It demonstrates that Planck's constant (h) is the physical phase-slip circulation quantum of the virtual boson BEC boundary, while Boltzmann's constant (k_B) defines the thermodynamic limit of boundary-to-plasma transitions. Furthermore, it establishes Postulate XVII, providing an electrodynamic resolution to quantum tunneling: a particle passing through a dense solid momentarily dissolves its geometric mass boundary into pure coherent field-energy (the wave state) to navigate the atomic lattice, subsequently undergoing vacuum re-nucleation (reconstructing the particle state) upon exiting the perturbing fields.
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