Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics

Abstract

Some recent results in the theory of stochastic electrodynamics (SED) are presented. First it is seen that introduction of the SED hypothesis of a real zeropoint field into the thermodynamical description of the equilibrium radiation field in terms of a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, leads to Planck’s formula and concomitant quantum properties, thus showing that SED is not a classical theory. A new version of SED is then used to study the stationary orbits of the bound particle; under certain explicitly stated conditions it is possible to recover the quantum equations of motion. It is argued that these stationary motions can be interpreted as limit cycles of the mechanical part of the system. The results strongly suggest that quantum mechanics provides an approximate asymptotic description of nature; the kind of approximations involved are briefly discussed