The Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) is a little known alternative to quantum mechanics (QM). Other alternative theories have taken QM and tinkered with it: for example they all share with QM the idea of non-locality. TEW takes a different approach. We choose to think outside the box: QM is the box outside of which we think. We do not assume wave-particle duality, complementarity, superposition of states, wave function collapse, probability densities, wave packets, or other QM principles.
Keep in mind that TEW is first and foremost a way of understanding experimental data. At every step of the way, our ideas come from empirical research (published by others). Here are four things we learn from experiments, which are explained and defended in other parts of this website (unfortunately some relevant parts of the website are not yet open for public view):
- Waves travel in the opposite direction as particles:
- They travel at the speed of light in the same direction as particles;
- Most waves exist without particles, and convey zero energy;
- Waves exist everywhere in nature, traveling in all directions, & all wavelengths.
We exist in an ocean of elementary waves. Up until now science has studied less than ½ of reality. The other ½ consists of elementary waves. We have also designed several experiments for which QM and TEW predict different results. We invite others to build these experiments.
TEW was discovered in 1993 by Dr. Lewis E. Little, who has a PhD in physics from NYU. He spent his professional career outside physics.
Dr. Jeffrey H. Boyd, the content webmaster of this site, is currently the only other TEW expert on earth. Little and Boyd have been in conversation, bouncing ideas off each other, for more than half a century.
Boyd is not a professional physicists. Boyd has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Brown University. He has graduate school degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Case Western Reserve Universities, was on the research faculty of the National Institutes of Health, and currently his day job is working as a physician at the hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. Just as this website thinks outside the box, likewise Boyd lives outside the box, working as a psychiatrist.
Boyd says he is no physic-ist, but he is an elementary-wave-ist.
This website design was by Sean Hayford Oleary Design.
One Comment
Very interesting. I prefer to think of standing waves (like a static force-field) throughout space. Nothing in these waves is actually “travelling”, except when there are changes in the physical distribution of matter/energy (and then changes in the static force-field, or standing wave, are propagated at the speed of light). Particle motion is then determined by this background static force-field (a la Bohm’s guiding wave). Schroedinger’s wave equation then describes the background standing-waves (and not the particles following these waves).
I particularly like the way these ideas do away with ridiculous notions of wavefunction collapse, wave-particle duality, spooky action at a distance, and the idea that a particle goes through both slits.
Keep up the good work,
Alex