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Megascopic Quantum Phenomena

A Critical Study of Physical Interpretations

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A historical study of metaphysical interpretations is presented. A megascopic revalidation is offered providing responses and resolutions of current inconsistencies and existing contradictions in present-day quantum theory. As the core of this study we present an independent proof of the Goldstone theorem for a quantum field formulation of molecules and solids. Along with phonons two types of new quasiparticles appear: rotons and translons. In full analogy with Lorentz covariance, combining space and time coordinates, a new covariance is necessary, binding together the internal and external degrees of freedom, without explicitly separating the centre-of-mass, which normally applies in both classical and quantum mechanical formulations. The generally accepted view regarding the lack of a simple correspondence between the Goldstone modes and broken symmetries, has significant consequences: an ambiguous BCS theory as well as a subsequent Higgs mechanism. The application of the archetype of the classical spontaneous symmetry breaking, i.e. the Mexican hat, as compared to standard quantum relations, i.e. the Jahn-Teller effect, superconductivity or the Higgs mechanism, becomes a disparity. In short, symmetry broken states have a microscopic causal origin, but transitions between them have a teleological component. The different treatments of the problem of the centre of gravity in quantum mechanics and in field theories imply a second type of Bohr complementarity on the many-body level opening the door for megascopic representations of all basic microscopic quantum axioms with further readings for teleonomic megascopic quantum phenomena, which have no microscopic rationale: isomeric transitions, Jahn-Teller effect, chemical reactions, Einstein-de Haas effect, superconductivity-superfluidity, and brittle fracture. We demonstrate how the megascopic extension of the microscopic theory deals with the various paradoxes, such as the arrow of time, the Jordan-von Weizsäcker problem, to explain classicality, Santilli’s “no reduction theorem”, the Schrödinger cat paradox and Wigner’s friend, and the Kauzmann paradox of residual entropy. Only the Copenhagen interpretation seems to be able to incorporate telicity via mega-scopic mirroring of each of its basic axioms, and in that way does confront the above mentioned paradoxes.

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Svrček, M. (2020). Megascopic Quantum Phenomena. In: Mammino, L., Ceresoli, D., Maruani, J., Brändas, E. (eds) Advances in Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology. QSCP 2018. Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34941-7_14

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