Po8
Redesigning physics foundations

We roll the dice for quantum mechanics, using a foundational sub-physical abstraction for quanta and interactions. We aim for elegance: our physicality is minimally sufficient, and has wide emergent coverage. Systems are self-generating, intrinsically background-free, and constitution-invariant.

# Simple Foundation Rules

Our deterministic mechanism for physicality has simple rules, from which other detail emerges:

1. Waves are bound in pairs as oscillators (bosons);
2. Quanta propagate radially, and only at light speed, having equivalence of phase, distance, and time: $d\phi =ds=dt$
3. Waves are excluded from interactions when they have the same phase and source;
4. A boson's mass-energy is a function of its phases, $\rho =-b\phantom{\rule{mediummathspace}{0ex}}{e}^{-i\left({\phi }_{B}-{\phi }_{A}\right)}$
5. Other sources' waves are phase-modulated by $\rho$;
6. Bosons collapse into a fermion where waves from two different bosons have value $-b$ at a unique point.

Fig.1: Dependency graph of the mechanism.

# Unification and Inclusion

Our mechanism implicitly includes gravitation and charge-based forces (weak, strong, electric), without explicitly formulating them into abstract dimensions. Likewise, quanta are not inherently ‘electric’, ‘magnetic’, nor ‘gravitational’; their observed effect depends on the context and attribution of quanta to their structured sources.

1. Unification of fermions and bosons in the same basis; defines dualities.
2. Unification of known forces in a common mechanism; gravitation not unified as a field, but is accountable.
3. Inclusive of difficult situations like black holes, red-blue-shifting, effective UV limits, singularities, and QCD.

# Latest Paper

## Minimal Deterministic Physicality Applied to Cosmology (2014)

This report summarizes ongoing research and development since our 2012 foundation paper, including the emergent effects of a deterministic mechanism for fermion interactions: (1) the coherence of black holes and particles using a quantum chaotic model; (2) wide-scale (anti)matter prevalence from exclusion and weak interaction during the fermion reconstitution process; and (3) red-shift due to variations of vacuum energy density. We provide a context for Standard Model fields, and show how gravitation can be accountably unified in the same mechanism, but not as a unified field.

## Archive

• J.S. Valentine, Minimal Deterministic Physicality Applied to Cosmology, Unified Field Mechanics: pp. 477-492, World Scientific, DOI: 10.1142/9789814719063_0048 (2014), http://johnvalentine.co.uk/po8.php?art=papers. [15]
• J.S. Valentine, Deterministic Impulsive Vacuum Foundations for Quantum-Mechanical Wavefunctions, BCS Cybernetics Group / Vigier VIII, WSPC [catalogue entry available] (2012), http://johnvalentine.co.uk/po8/Valentine,JS-2012.pdf. [14]
• J.S. Valentine, An Absolute Phase Space for the Physicality of Matter, Vigier VII, AIP Conf. Proc. 1316, 349 (2010), DOI:10.1063/1.3536446 (2010). [12]
• J.S. Valentine, Algebra of a Three-fold Symmetry for Fundamental Physics, Conference on Physical Interpretation of Relativity Theory XI, British Society for Philosophy of Science, London (2008), http://www.physicsfoundations.org/PIRT_XI/texts.html. [11]
• J.S. Valentine, Gravitation in Symmetrical Context of Space-Time, Conference on Physical Interpretation of Relativity Theory X, British Society for Philosophy of Science, London (2006). [7]
• J.S. Valentine, A Development of “The Fundamental Parameters of Physics”, ANPA 20, Cambridge (1998). [4]

# What are we working on now?

There are many 'edges' where this work can be pushed further, but we see some priorities:

• A new paper, describing the statistics of vacuum flux, particle coherence, gravitation.
• A deterministic simulation suite, for web.
• An easy proof of classical gravitation, and observations on effective limits.
• Reconciling with general relativity, and descriptions of derivations and differences in fundamental assumptions.