Abstract
Subquantum kinetics, a physics methodology that applies general
systems theoretic concepts to the field of microphysics, has
proposed that the nuclear core field of a subatomic particle
is electrostatic and is continuous with the particle's extended
electric potential field. Furthermore it proposes that this central
field constitutes a kind of three-dimensional Turing wave pattern
or dissipative structure that emerges from and is maintained
through the activity of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion substrate
filling all of space. This subatomic Turing wave prediction has
now been confirmed through model fits to nucleon scattering form
factor data which show that the nucleon core has a Gaussian charge
density distribution with a peripheral periodicity whose wavelength
approximates the particle's Compton wavelength and which declines
in amplitude with increasing radial distance. Subquantum kinetics
is able to account in a unitary fashion for the origin of charge
and spin as well as for nuclear binding, particle diffraction,
and electron orbital quantization. Its successes demonstrate
that there are great benefits to applying the general systems
theoretic approach to the field of microphysics. |