Abstract
Subquantum kinetics, a physics methodology that applies general
systems theoretic concepts to the field of microphysics has gained
the status of being a viable unified field theory. Earlier publications
of this theory had proposed that a subatomic particle should
consist of an electrostatic field that has the form of a radial
Turing wave pattern whose form is maintained through the ongoing
activity of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion medium that fills
all space. This subatomic Turing wave prediction now finds confirmation
in recent nucleon scattering form factor data which show that
the nucleon core has a Gaussian charge density distribution with
a peripheral periodicity whose wavelength approximates the particle's
Compton wavelength and which declines in amplitude with increasing
radial distance. The subquantum kinetics explanation for the
origin of charge correctly anticipates the observation that the
proton's charge density wave pattern is positively biased while
the neutron's is not. The phenomenon of beta decay is interpreted
as the onset of a secondary bifurcation leading from the uncharged
neutron solution to the charged proton solution. The Turing wave
dissipative structure prediction is able to account in a unitary
fashion for nuclear binding, particle diffraction, and electron
orbital quantization. The wave packet model is shown to be fundamentally
flawed implying that quantum mechanics does not realistically
represent the microphysical world. This new conception points
to the possible existence of orbital energy states below the
Balmer ground state whose transitions may be tapped as a new
source of energy. |