Volume 20: Pages 276-280, 2007
A Physical Basis for Schrödinger's Equation
Francis X. Vacanti 1
128 Cedar Hill Road, Dover, Massachusetts 02030 U.S.A.
The electron may be considered to be a wave‐packet comprising photons traveling in opposite directions, continually reversing direction, and confined to a region of space. This differs from the conventional view that the wave‐packet comprises waves that extend infinitely into space but are in phase only in the region of the packet.
Keywords: wave, particle, energy, momentum, velocity, phase, direction, relativity, Doppler, Schrödinger
Received: June 25, 2006; Published Online: March 26, 2009
