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Quantum Foundations as a Guide for Refining Particle Theories

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09396v1
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:17:54 GMT
Title: Quantum Foundations as a Guide for Refining Particle Theories
Authors: Gerard t Hooft
Abstract summary: All quantum field theories describe interacting bosonic elementary particles. We indicate that introducing interactions still leads to classical theories that can be compared with the quantum theories.
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Abstract: All quantum field theories that describe interacting bosonic elementary particles, share the feature that the zeroth order perturbation expansion describes non-interacting harmonic oscillators. This is explained in the paper. We then indicate that introducing interactions still leads to classical theories that can be compared with the quantum theories, but only if we terminate the expansion somewhere. `Quantum effects' typically occur when some of the classical variables fluctuate too rapidly to allow a conventional description, so that these are described exclusively in terms of their energy eigen modes; these do not commute with the standard classical variables. Perturbation expansions are not fundamentally required in classical theories, and this is why classical theories are more precisely defined than the quantum theories. Since the expansion parameters involve the fundamental constants of nature, such as the finestructure constant, we suggest that research in these classical models may lead to new clues concerning the origin of these constants.

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