tisdag 10 januari 2023

Microscopics of Macroscopic Continuum Physics

Continuum waves even on smallest scale.

Quantum mechanics as the crown jewel of the modern physics of the 20th century is commonly viewed to be fundamentally different from classical physics reaching full bloom towards the end of the 19th century with Maxwell's equations for electromagnetics. Together with Navier's equations for solid mechanics and Navier-Stokes equations for fluid mechanics this offered a complete picture of the World in the form of continuum physics described by partial differential equations in 3 space dimensions and 1 time dimension.

Quantum mechanics is viewed to describe the microscopics of small scale atom physics while classical continuum physics is viewed to describe macroscopics of bigger scales. A consensus developed to view the microscopic world to be fundamentally different from the macroscopic world, the reason being that the quantum mechanics of microscopics could not be understood in classical terms of continuum physics. 

In short, classical continuum physics could be understood and used as a reasonable model of the macroscopic world, while quantum mechanics could not be understood as a resonable model only used. 

The reason quantum mechanics cannot be understood is that it is based on Schrödinger's equation in a multi-dimensional configuration space without reasonable physical interpretation. Quantum mechanics is unreasonable because Schrödinger's equation is unreasonable. Quantum mechanics is viewed to be fundamentally different from classical continuum physics because Schrödinger's equation is fundamentally different from the models of continuum physics, more precisely no agreement has been reached concerning its physical meaning despite 100 years of dispute. 

Is then Schrödinger's multi-dimensional equation the only thinkable model of the microscopics of atoms? Maybe, but anyway I test as Real Quantum Mechanics RealQM a different model, which has the form of classical continuum physics and as such can be understood in physical terms. 

With RealQM there is no fundamental difference between microscopics and macroscopics since all physics is described as continuum physics. This is not unreasonable since in continuum physics there is no smallest scale, as this is the nature of the continuum like the continuum of real numbers where more decimals always can be added if needed. 

The beauty of continuum physics is that it can handle all scales from microscopics to macroscopics in a unified way. In continuum physics there are no (elementary) particles of zero spatial extension. Everything is waves and matter with spatial extension, which can be captured in the partial differential equations of continuum physics. This is physics without the mysteries of standard QM.


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