THE TRUE IDENTITY OF THE QUANTUM
A provocative analysis of the history of quantum mechanics in six short podcasts.
Six more podcasts will be released in November 2025 on ontology or what is real as opposed to what is mathematically expedient following the insights of the physicist-philosophers such as Faraday, Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, J. J. Thomson, Eddington, Schrödinger and others.
Episodes
12 episodes
The Return of the Ether Part 3 Dynamics and the Continuum
The chances of arriving at a unified field theory increase if duality is removed and all phenomena is considered as variations of motion in one single continuum. What the continuum is, is an open question: a void, ether, a superfluid, plasma or...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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10:12
The Return of the Ether Part 2 The Space Theory of Matter and the Vortex Atom
Examines the merits of a theory that could replace the current particle theory of matter. On the website is a more detailed essay, a note on Non-Euclidean Geometry and Infinity, a booklist and a paper by W. K. Clifford 'The Space Theory o...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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12:05
The Return of the Ether Part 1 Fields
Identifying the anomalies in the gravitational, electrostatic and quantum fields. Demonstrating that given the contradictions in each of them any attempt to unify them is a fruitless exercise. On the website is a more detailed essay, a no...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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10:10
Particle Menace Part 3 Farewell to Primitive Concepts
Discovering how concepts such as energy, mass, space, force and charge can be replaced by frequency, density and motion . On the website is a more detailed essay, a note on gravitational and inertial mass including interpretations of Newton's b...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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11:17
The Particle Menace Part 2 The Wave Model of the Atom
Schrodinger's wave model of the atom is described and how he chose to interpret it by looking for analogies in light and fluid mechanics. His realism was rejected and one of the main criticisms was that the wave model could not provide the perm...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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8:17
The Particle Menace Part 1 The Solar System Model of the Atom
The Bohr-Sommerfeld model of the atom is described including the four quantum numbers used to identify electrons and explain the Zeeman effects and Pauli's exclusion principle. While this particle model is serviceable it is ontologically flawed...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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10:28
The Quantum Cat meets the Quantum Computer
Schrödinger's intention was that his cat analogy serve as a criticism of the notion of a particle being in a superposition of states. Once again the supporters of the Copenhagen interpretation hi-jacked the criticism and used it to support the ...
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10:09
Magic Particles
Einstein’s criticism of the Copenhagen interpretation, detailed in a 1935 paper he co-authored with Podolsky and Rosen and commonly referred to as the EPR paper included a thought experiment which involved the position and momentum of two parti...
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8:29
Atomic Circus: Jumps and Spins
Atomic spectra was used to support the idea that electrons can jump between energy levels or ‘stationary states’ in the atom. Schrödinger rejected this and thought a more natural explanation was to view the electron as a standing wave changing ...
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Episode 4
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8:47
Heisenberg, the Salieri of Physics
Heisenberg and Schrödinger had competing theories about the atomic model: Heisenberg took a discontinuous particle approach and his rival Schrödinger, a continuous wave approach. Heisenberg prevailed by hi-jacking Schrödinger's wave equation wh...
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Episode 3
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10:27
