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 the idea of non-locality. TEW takes a different approach. We choose to think outside the QM box. We do not assume wave-particle duality, complementarity, superposition of states, wave function collapse, probability densities, wave packets, or other QM principles. While quantum physics in the year 2012 is consumed with the question of how to build a quantum computer, this website rejects the concept of entanglement, which is the starting assumption for such computers.
TEW is first and foremost a way of understanding experimental data. Our ideas come from empirical research (published by others). Here are two things we learn from experiments:
- Waves travel in the opposite direction as particles:
- Waves exist everywhere in nature, traveling in all directions, & all wavelengths.
You and I live in an ocean of elementary waves. We don’t see them, but we see their effects. The world we do see is shaped by elementary waves. Up until now science has studied less than ½ of reality. The other ½ consists of elementary waves. If there is any validity to TEW, it will be necessary for classical physics to be re-thought based on TEW assumptions.
TEW was discovered in 1993 by Dr. Lewis E. Little, who has a PhD in physics from NYU. He spent his career outside physics, in the financial world as a commodities trader.
I have been in conversation with my cousin Lewis for more than half a century. We began our discussions sitting on Grandma Beech’s living room floor before Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, and continued them when I followed Lewis to be an undergraduate in the applied math department at Brown University. He is two years older.
I am not a professional physicist. I have an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Brown University. My three graduate school degrees are from Harvard, Yale, and Case Western Reserve Universities, and currently my day job is working as a physician at a Yale teaching hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. Just as this website thinks outside the box, likewise I live outside the box, working as a psychiatrist. I have learned more from schizophrenics than from physicists.
When people have psychotic ideas, I can relate. Sometimes schizophrenics make more sense.
During my career in medicine, especially my seven years on the research faculty of the National Institutes of Health, I developed a passion for research studies. My contribution to TEW is to study the empirical research which is thought to be the “foundations of QM,” and re-think those experiments from a TEW point of view. So far no experiments have been found that contradicts TEW, but we have found experiments that cannot be explained by QM. I have designed an experiment (never conducted) in which TEW & QM predict different outcomes.
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