A unification scheme for classical and quantum mechanics at all velocities

Abstract

From a Newtonian-Maxwellian solution for a perturbed vacuum with a physical structure constructed based on pivotal experimental observations, we have achieved a general scheme for the formation of basic material particles. A basic particle, which may be e.g. an electron, is composed of a tiny free aether-pole (a bare charge) and the mechanical wave disturbances -- identifying with electromagnetic waves -- generated by it in the medium. When in motion, as a result of a first kind source effect, this particle wave exhibits all of wave and dynamic properties known for a de Broglie wave, and is here called a Newton- de Broglie (NdB) particle wave. In a confined space, the Newtonian solution for the NdB particle wave is equivalent to that given by Schrodinger's quantum mechanics. Through this general scheme we have accomplished a basic task of the unification of the classical- and the quantum- mechanics, both in terms of the deduction of the latter from the former, and the convergence of the latter into the former at high velocities. Through completing the task, we unfold the origins of a series of phenomena including the electromagnetic waves, the electromagnetic radiation and absorption, atomic and thermal excitations, the inertial mass, the Schrodinger's wavefunction and de Broglie wave, the Heisenberg's uncertainty relation, the de Broglie relations, the simultaneous existence of electron and positron or generally of particles and their anti-particles, the (rest) mass-energy equivalence relation, etc. The general scheme facilitates also a Theory of Relative Motion which we present in a separate paper, II; a series of followed studies are planned. (An original report of the scheme with a Preface remarking on the changes in later publications.)