A SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4841245
A self-consistent field theory of quantum electrodynamics was developed based on the postulate that the laws of nature must be described in terms of field variables which may be associated only with elementary interactions. Coupled with this postulate was a reinterpretation and reformulation of the Maxwell-Lorentz theory of electromagnetism. Quantum mechanics was interpreted as a statistical thecry of elementary interactions. One consequence of this theory was the rejection of the photon as an elementary particle and its replacement by a state of the particle-antiparticle pair. An application of the theory to a system of identical particles revealed mathematical consequences identical to those obtained from the Pauli exclusion principle. A study of positronium revealed in detail the structure of the theory. Arunihilation and creation processes of particle-antiparticle pairs were shown to be states of this two- particle system. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Missiles and Space Div., Sunnyvale, Calif.
- NSA Number:
- NSA-15-028702
- OSTI ID:
- 4841245
- Report Number(s):
- LMSD-288254; PB-171533
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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