Are strings the aether of our time?

TL;DR

This paper explores how displacing classical concepts in relativistic quantum physics can lead to uniquely quantum mechanical examples, highlighting the limitations of classical quantizations in describing interactions.

Contribution

It introduces novel quantum mechanical examples that demonstrate the implications of displacing classical concepts in relativistic quantum physics.

Findings

Classical quantizations exclude interactions in certain realizations.

Displacing classical concepts enables new quantum mechanical examples.

Technical properties are required for relativistic quantum descriptions.

Abstract

Descriptions of relativistic quantum physics that derive from quantizations of classical physics require additional technical properties and these technical conjectures exclude interaction in example realizations. In this essay, uniquely quantum mechanical examples are discussed to illustrate realizations made available by displacing classical concepts from relativistic quantum physics.