Notes on the Dynamics of the Particle Wave

Yih-Yuh Chen

O. Costa de Beauregard

Dugald R. Murdoch

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Wave-particle duality 2. Niels Bohr and wave-particle duality 3. From duality to complementarity 4. The meaning of complementarity 5. The foundations of kinematic-dynamic complementarity 6. Bohr's theory of measurement 7. Bohr's theory of properties 8. Einstein versus Bohr 9. The sequel to the Bohr-Einstein debate 10. Bohr's philosophy of physics 11. An appraisal of Bohr's philosophy of physics Notes Index.

Leonardo Chiatti

The current formulation of quantum theory is notoriously agnostic about the ontological aspects of the propagation of elementary particles and their interactions. In this brief note, we propose a minimal ontological representation of interactions, based on a micro-cosmological description of the manifestation of these particles in the collapse events of their wave function. The fading of the pre-collapse wave function and the arising of the post-collapse function occur dynamically, as they asymptotically approach different sheets of the same micro-cosmological horizon, whose projections onto ordinary spacetime are placed at finite times.

Ronald E. Mickens

Leonardo Chiatti

The current formulation of quantum theory is notoriously agnostic about the ontological aspects of the propagation of elementary particles and their interactions. In this brief note, we propose a minimal ontological representation of interactions, based on a micro-cosmological description of the manifestation of these particles in the collapse events of their wave function. The fading of the pre-collapse wave function and the arising of the post-collapse function occur dynamically, as they asymptotically approach different sheets of the same micro-cosmological horizon, whose projections onto ordinary spacetime are placed at finite times.