About the Nature of the Quantum System, an Examination of the Random Discontinuous Motion Interpretation of the Quantum Mechanics

TL;DR

This paper examines the random discontinuous motion interpretation of quantum mechanics, proposing that particles jump randomly and addressing its implications for measurement, entanglement, and relativity.

Contribution

It introduces and analyzes Gao's RDM interpretation, highlighting its unique ontological approach and addressing specific quantum phenomena and conceptual contradictions.

Findings

RDM explains particle behavior in electric fields.

Addresses measurement problem with particle jumps.

Discusses challenges with entanglement and relativity.

Abstract

What is the quantum system? Consider the wavefunction of the electron, what we call single particle wave-function and assume that it contains N wave packets. If we pass all the wave packets through an electric field, all are deflected, as if each one of them contains an electron. However, if we bring any two wave packets to travel close to one another, they do not repel one another, as if at least one of them contains no charge. In trying to solve the measurement problem of the quantum mechanics (QM), different interpretations were proposed, each one coming with a particular ontology. However, only one interpretation paid explicit attention to the contradiction mentioned above. This interpretation was proposed by S. Gao who named it random discontinuous motion (RDM), because it assumes the existence of a particle that jumps from place to place at random. The particle carries all the physical properties of the respective type of particle, mass, charge, magnetic momentum, etc. It jumps under the control of a so called instantaneous condition about which Gao did not give details so far. Along with presenting problems of the QM that this interpretation solves, this text reveals difficulties vis-\`a-vis entanglements and the special relativity.