Quantum Features of Vacuum Flux Impact: An Interpretation of Quantum Phenomena

Abstract

Special relativity combined with the stochastic vacuum flux impact model lead to an explicit interpretation of many of the phenomena of elementary quantum mechanics. We examine characteristics of a repetitively impacted submicroscopic particle in conjunction with examination of the ways in which effects associated with the particle's behavior appear in moving frames of reference. As seen from relatively moving frames of reference, the time and location of impacts and recoils automatically exhibit wave behavior. This model leads to free particle waves with frequencies proportional to the energy and wavelengths inversely proportional to the momentum. As seen from relatively moving frames of reference, impacts and their associated recoils can appear to an observer to take place simultaneously at multiple locations in space. For superposed free particle waves corresponding to bidirectional motion, an amplitude that varies sinusoidally with distance results. A governing equation identical in form to the Schroedinger equation is developed that describes the behavior of the impacts and their associated recoils. This approach permits many features of quantum mechanics to be examined within an intuitively visualizable framework.