Quantum theory and classical, nonlinear electronics (Q1078773)

There are reasons to believe that the present interpretation of quantum theory is incomplete. To address the issue, in this paper electrons are viewed neither as waves nor small spheres but as charged volumes, of fixed mass, charge, and moments, whose internal dynamic configurational structures are responsive to external force fields. It is shown that a first order reactive radiation reaction force acts to rend an electron, when trapped by a potential well, into closed and stable current loops. Through near fields, the otherwise stable configurations respond to an applied radiation field nonlinearly; the nonlinearity results in radiation with quantum properties, including quantized angular momentum and full directivity. Far from the electron, the dominant radiative power density term is \((1+\cos \theta)^ 2\) where \(\theta\) is the angle between Poynting and radius vectors, and, as far out as the length of the wave train, the term is independent of distance. Since, during radiation exchange, large near fields act to expand atomic radii from the ground state to or beyond excited state values, generating current magnitudes do not appear to be excessive. The Manley Rowe power-frequency relations are applicable and non-trivial. Current structures necessary to trigger the nonlinearity provide a probabilistic basis for stimulated and spontaneous energy exchanges. In this view earlier work either ignored or misestimated the role and scope of electromagnetic reactive power in quantized energy exchanges and incorrectly modelled static and dynamic electronic charge distributions; the nonlinearity was missed for these reasons. Results are the Schrödinger wave equation as a non-mechanistic descriptor of system- and time-average kinematic values, and quantum radiation. Thus, quantum theory may be viewed as a very general special case: the classical theory of nonlinear, adaptive, charged systems.