An Alternative to Modern Physics
Any alternative to modern physics must of necessity predict and produce results identical to those obtained and confirmed using the twin cornerstones of modern physics, quantum mechanics and special relativity, then if the alternative is basically different in content either the original or the alternative must be fundamentally flawed.
Planck's law, with energy confined to indivisible quanta each of which is radiated or absorbed as a whole, with magnitude being proportional to frequency, is unequivocally accepted as the basis of quantum physics and it obviously works, nevertheless there is a deeper interpretation possible. The subatomic particle has not been proven as a discrete entity and this permits the following as an alternative.
In all cases where both wave and particle can be experimentally demonstrated this apparent paradox is deterministically resolved if, at each point of inflexion along the axis of wave propagation the wave energy, having zero amplitude, appears as a mass, making mass at the subatomic level an intermittent transient state of wave energy. Thus while wave interference patterns are always detected not all 'particle' appearances would be as those wave/particles interfacing with a detector as waves would be lost as particles. ( This idea is of course diametrically opposed to current theory, where the particle cannot be at zero wave amplitude, but when alternating wave/particle states are considered this location is unique. If alternation is assumed at any other point on the wave then all other locations must be possible, and this returns the argument to uncertainty with duality preventing further progress.)
This concept of alternating energy/mass while changing the perceived nature of subatomic phenomena keeps intact all established results. With two particle appearances per cycle Planck's number would now relate to two quanta without changing results, while lyl2 as a maximum, given as the statistical location of a quantum, would equate to the mean of quanta appearing at consecutive points of inflexion with y = 0.
In the twin slit experiment with most(?) wave/particles interfacing with the detector as waves, but with all wave/particle routes masterminded by wave interference, wave/particles when detected as 'individual particles' in supposed isolation would produce an overall detection pattern of wave interference, and would appear to have chosen their own routes. A similar argument applies to the Aspect experiment.
Considering the confirmed deduction from E = mc 2 that all energy has mass. This dictate must not contradict conservation laws, a state of energy cannot coexist as a state of mass, therefore conversions between states must occur. This being so there must be a smallest unit of energy, or mass, capable of transformation to the other state. Since these incremental transformations occur dynamically, within E = mc 2 as a dynamic confine, they are a integral part of this expression. Therefore this is not an equation which can only lead to transformations with a change in speed, it is one which must include them at all times. There must be energy-mass transformations at constant speed, they cannot suddenly be introduced for a change in speed, they must be there to start with for conservation to prevail,- for all energy to have mass. Therefore E = mc 2 dictates that, in the limit, energy alternates as mass. ( The apparent change in a particle's mass with a change in speed would be simply due to a change in the frequency of particle appearances.)
Thus in this idea both quantum physics and special relativity have as their fundamental unit alternating energy-mass. This unit would be basic to the dynamic condition of subatomic entities displaying duality, while an experiment 'proving' wave and another 'proving' particle would demonstrate the constituent parts of such entities. A mutualistic relationship where, at the subatomic level, neither exists separately.
The idea from the viewpoint of electromagnetism
Wave-particle duality would require some mysterious connection between a wave and a particle for both to traverse the near vacuum of space. Unless the wave also carries the particle the particle would be a completely separate entity, and neither seems deterministically possible. As in the previous argument the intermittent particle as an integral part of the wave is the only way forward. Thus electromagnetic radiation would be expected to behave as a wave when being propagated and as a particle when interacting with matter, which of course is the case.
The speed of light is explained as resulting from a natural limit imposed on this energy/mass/energy continuum. As the particle appearances occur at each point of inflexion instantaneously, or as near instantaneous as nature allows, there is no displacement of the particle relative to the wave, with the electric and magnetic fields evolving at the limiting speed from each 'stationary particle'. A relationship essential for the entity's ongoing propagation through space and similar to the relationship between a non-electromagnetic wave and its medium. This limiting speed dictates that the speed of propagation of all such waves in free space is independent of frequency and therefore constant.
All quantum phenomena seem to be readily explained in terms of this idea. Some examples
'Electrons' in nuclear orbit and in chemical interactions are more easily understood as intermittent particles with all their properties dependent on wave functions. They would appear exactly 'on station' unless acted upon, having a precise energy level fixed by the number of particle appearances, and could not spiral into the nucleus. In current quantum mechanics the electron orbiting the hydrogen atom in its lowest energy level has zero orbital angular momentum, a state impossible in Bohr's model, whereas in this idea all particle appearances are stationary relative to the wave. But with two particle appearances per cycle, and the simplest form of orbiting wave symmetry taken to be two cycles, this indicates that four appearances within a single orbiting wave equate to the single electron presently assumed in the hydrogen atom.This seems possible as chemical interaction would now be the partial interlocking of waveparticle systems.( However chemistry works it surely invalidates the current quantum physics. It is inconceivable that nature would, on the one hand, allow intrinsically unknowable 'locations' for electrons and, on the other hand, dictate that these same electrons co-ordinate in a unique repeatable manner for any particular chemical interaction.)
Spin results from the parallel or antiparallel direction of the wavefront as it produces a transitory particle when passing through each point of inflexion. Obviously there can be no intermediate state.
With neutrinos viewed as waveparticles the calculated numbers of these, currently predicted for detection in solar radiation experiments, would reduce by a factor related to the proportion interfacing with the detection system as waves and so lost as particles. The suggestion being that prediction would then match results.
In tunnelling the waveparticle has a finite probability of piercing a narrow potential barrier as a wave.
Many results from accelerator experiments would consist of transitory waveparticles of no constructive significance being wavelets randomly produced and without meaningful indentities as 'particles'.
The time-independent form of Schrödinger's wave mechanics shows energy to be quantized. The uncertainty principal predicts that energy can, at the quantum level, continuously appear and disappear. And E = mc 2 gives energy-mass transformations. All of which are indicative of this idea. Deterministic intermittency replacing intrinsic uncertainty and like uncertainty presenting no opportunity for defining values of conjugate variables - simultaneously.
Reducing duality to a single wave/particle entity, with the particle appearing at each point of inflexion as a deterministic integral part and function of the wave energy, makes it a simpler concept and therefore preferred over the mysticism invoked by the acceptance of duality.
