Quantization by Cosmic Background Radiation

Abstract

Abstract : This paper suggests that various modes in the cosmic background radiation field may account for the discrete properties exhibited by small systems. In particular, this view is applied to the one-, two-, and three-dimensional oscillators and the hydrogen atom, systems which were treated by Schrodinger in his first papers on quantum mechanics. The usual energy formulas for the above systems are derived using this point of view, together with some indication of how transition probabilities might also be calculated. A connection between de Broglie's associated wave and a free mass moving in the cosmic background is also discussed. Analogs of the uncertainty and correspondence principles are briefly mentioned as are some of the implications this view might have for interpreting quantum theory. In this view particles and waves are separate, interacting entities and not complementary aspects of the same thing.