Quantum Mechanics is Probabilistic but Causal

About the origin of the probabilistic nature of quantum

The orbital conception of elementary particles provides a straightforward origin to the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. In effect, the instantaneous state of their structural carrier cannot be known. As a consequence when particles collide and interact their instantaneous structural state is random and thus their behavior cannot be predicted for individual events, but can only be in a statistical way since identical structural states unavoidably repeat with time.

A crucial deduction related to causality can now be made. Within this conceptual frame, quantum mechanics appears to be necessarily probabilistic but it is however causal. The unpredictable behavior of particular events is due to the unknown instantaneous state of the structural carrier in the moment of interaction. This leads to a spreading of the behavior, however this one is definitively causal. In other words, quantum mechanics is statistical and deterministic at large scale. It is probabilistic in regard to each singular event, however each one is causal and determined by the instantaneous state of the interacting particles.

The punctual positive and negative charges are regarded as structural carriers and considered to spin at the speed of light. The (dark) orbitals embody the structure of elementary particles. Charged elementary particles are structured by the orbital of a single charged carrier while neutral particles are structured by two carriers with opposite charge.

The animation shows sequences of two collisions in identical macroscopic conditions but in different instantaneous structural quantum states (different positions of the structural carriers at the instant of collision). These two sequences schematically express the fact that since the instantaneous structural state of the colliding particles (related the position of their spinning carrier, in a classical standpoint) cannot be accessed. Consequently the behavior of individual events cannot be predicted.

On the animation, in the first collision the positively charged particle (i.e. the one with a positive structural carrier, which spins at the speed of light) at the left goes upwards and the negative particle goes downwards and inversely in the second collision. This rough phenomenological representation points out that each collision behaves in a specific way according to the instantaneous structural quantum state of each particle at the instant of interaction through structural collision. However, at a large scale identical conditions occur and thus a statistical pattern emerges, leading to a deterministic behavior.

So, for the seek of coherence, the Copenhagen philosophical standpoint considering quantum behavior acausal cannot be regarded as ascertained. Quantum mechanics is a probabilistic description of phenomena at a quantum scale which are causal indeed. In short, QM is probabilistic but causal.

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