Thermodynamic and quantum thermodynamic answers to Einstein's concerns about Brownian movement
Elias P. Gyftopoulos

TL;DR
This paper revisits Einstein's 1905 concerns about Brownian motion, providing new thermodynamic and quantum mechanical insights that challenge traditional molecular-kinetic views and offer a novel regularization approach.
Contribution
It introduces a new regularization of Brownian movement based on thermodynamic and quantum mechanical principles, countering classical molecular-kinetic theories.
Findings
Evidence against molecular-kinetic conception of heat
A new thermodynamic-based regularization of Brownian motion
Quantum mechanical insights into microscopic thermal movements
Abstract
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the revolutionary contributions to physics by Einstein, I am happy to respond to a problem posed by him in 1905. He said: In this paper it will be shown that according to the molecular-kinetic theory of heat, bodies of microscopically-visible size suspended in a liquid will perform movements of such magnitude that they can be easily observed in a microscope, on account of the molecular motions of heat....that is, Brownian molecular motion. In this article I provide incontrovertible evidence against molecular-kinetic conception of heat, and a regularization of the Brownian movement that differs from all the statistical procedures and/or analyses that exist in the archival literature to date. The regularization is based on either of two distinct but intimately interrelated revolutionary conceptions of thermodynamics, one is…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics · Quantum Mechanics and Applications · Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
