Thursday, February 28, 2019

Does the Dirac equation work by chance?

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Despite three months of hard work we have not been able to find an intuitive physical model which would explain the Dirac equation. Richard ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The spin 1/2 h-bar of an electron is a remnant of the orbital angular momentum of positronium?

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In the hydrogen atom, the electron orbital angular momentum in the z direction is an integer multiple of h-bar. Classically (that is, in New...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Sabine Hossenfelder on good problems in the foundations of physics

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http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/good-problems-in-foundations-of-physics.html Sabine Hossenfelder has written an interesting po...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

The gyromagnetic ratio is 2 because the spin lives in a 1+2-dimensional space?

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In the Pauli equation, the effect of the vector potential can be modeled with the flow vector of water. Close to the wire carrying the c...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Is there a "quantum state" of an individual electron in a multiple electron system

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The Pauli exclusion principle claims that in a non-hydrogen atom, each electron occupies a separate "quantum state". Similarly, in...
Friday, December 28, 2018

The minimal coupling p - qA

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UPDATE Jan 11, 2019: The Landau quantization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau_quantization solves the problem of an electron in a un...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Wave function collapse is like recreation of the particle

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Suppose that we have a particle which is described by the Schrödinger equation. When we measure its position at some accuracy Δs to be the p...