Volume 5, Issue 3, pages 1-19
“Quantum Reconstruction” attempts to rebuild the highly successful Quantum Mechanics (QM) from scratch to understand the “real” meaning of its mathematical structure. In addition, perhaps, we must re-look at the role the constant `c’ plays in physics. It would be shown here that this constant has a more crucial role at the foundations than what Relativity envisaged. It was Einstein, who postulated in his Special Theory of Relativity (SR), that the velocity of light is invariant for all inertial observers! This is counter-intuitive. Another mystery from QM is Schrodinger’s “zitterbewegung” (ZB) phenomenon which is a mathematical extension of Dirac’s free electron theory. By integrating these two concepts into physics at the foundational level we can rebuild a fairly consistent model which seems to unify SR and QM by giving a geometrical interpretation to the “complex wave-function” as representing a helical trajectory of particles like electrons. Helix being a geodesic on a cylinder accommodates “quantization of energy” and is a three-dimensional wave having all the properties that we are familiar with the 2D wave. Thus by postulating an internal structure to these fundamental particles consistent with ZB, many of the results of QM and SR which are at present purely based on intuitive mathematics, can be understood in a simple and “realistic” way.
