Paul Dirac’s view of the Theory of Elementary Waves

Abstract

Is science open to a new idea? Thomas Kuhn says paradigm shifts sound like gibberish to scientificleaders, and are rejected for that reason. The Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) is such an idea:quantum particles follow waves moving in the opposite direction. Time always goes forwards. Wefocus on Paul Dirac’s 1930 book The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, applied to TEW. We keepDirac notation and quantum math but replace the picture of how nature is organized. Waveinterference and probabilistic effects occur prior to particle emission. Wave function collapse occursat emission & there is no further interference. We have launched a successful program of teachingthis form of physics in the format of YouTube music videos of five minutes duration. Some of ourvideos have been watched 40,000 times: within YouTube search for “Jeffrey H Boyd” to watch theseamusing videos including one in which Yoda (from Star Wars) solves what Richard Feynman calledthe “Fundamental Mystery of Quantum Mechanics.”