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Nicholas · 2008-04-05 02:30:05

Max Born's interpretation tells you where you can find a particle. I have a new interpretation that follows Born's: The particle spends less time where its momentum is high and more time where its momentum is low. The particle moves fastest where it is found the least and vice versa.

This quantum wave gives the particle a changing momentum. Some of the particles mass becomes greater motion where it is found the least often. As the particle decelerates its decreasing motion turns it back into its mass where it is found the most frequent.

Mitch Raemsch

Nicholas · 2008-04-05 04:38:23

I realize that momentum is conserved for the quantum wave-particle. The particle guided by the wave uses some of its mass to speed up. It is found least where it is moving fastest. There it will have the least mass but the most motion as it approaches the speed of light. Where the particle is found the most is where it is moving the slowest. This is where is found the most amount of mass in the particles momentum and the least speed.

The quantum wave conserves the momentum of a particle. The two terms making up momentum: mass and velocity; become interchanged. Mass turns into motion and motion turns back into mass but the total of the two is always conserved.

Mitch Raemsch

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