The Madelung picture as a foundation of geometric quantum theory (Q1748032)

Quantum theory suffers from many serious conceptual difficulties. To overcome this mathematical physicists have been attempting to formulate Quantum theory geometrically and to find a rigorous method of quantization, but this has not solved the problem. In this paper the author argues that a Quantum theory recursing to quantization algorithms is necessarily incomplete. To provide an alternative approach, it is shown that the Schrödinger equation is a consequence of three partial differential equations governing the time evolution of a given probability density. These equations, discovered by Madelung, naturally ground the Schrödinger theory in Newtonian mechanics and Kolmogorovian probability theory. A variety of far-reaching consequences for the projection postulate, the correspondence principle, the measurement problem, the uncertainty principle, and the modeling of particle creation and annihilation are immediate. A speculative interpretation of the equations is given following Bohm, Vigier and Tsekov, by claiming that quantum mechanical behavior is possibly caused by gravitational background noise.