2001/03/26 by Mark Davidson, Mark P Davidson, Davidson, Mark P
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #physics.comp-ph #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0103143
25 pages, 8 figures revised to improve pdf presentation
openalex publication_date 2001/03/26 · arxiv created 2001/06/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is shown using numerical simulation that classical charged tachyons have several features normally thought to be unique to quantum mechanics. Spin-like self-orbiting helical motions are shown to exist at discrete values for the velocity of the tachyon in Feynman-Wheeler electrodynamics and in normal causal electrodynamics more complex closed orbits also appear to exist. Tunneling behavior of the classical tachyon is observed at classical turning points depending on the angle of incidence. The equations of motion appear to be chaotic and effectively indeterministic when the tachyon crosses its own past light cone. It is argued that self-interacting tachyons moving in a tight helix would behave causally, and that they could be a basis for a hidden variable description of quantum mechanics. A procedure is proposed which could determine the fine structure constant.