De Broglie waves and the nature of mass Export

@article{citeulike:4959299, abstract = {In this paper an attempt is made to interpret inertial mass as a consequence of the invariant periodicity associated with physical de Broglie waves. In the case of a free particle, such waves, observed from an arbitrary reference frame, would exhibit the velocity-dependent wavelength given by de Broglie's relation; and it is conjectured that the inertial and additive properties of mass (or, more precisely, the conservation of momentum and energy) can be related to nonlinear interference effects occurring between the de Broglie waves for different particles. This picture could throw light on the physical meaning of quantization and suggests the possibility of reformulating classical and quantum mechanics in terms of a ``quasi-classical'' nonlinear field theory in which both inertial and quantization effects result essentially from the periodicity of de Broglie waves.}, author = {{wignall}, J. W. G.}, citeulike-article-id = {4959299}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00735293}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1985FoPh...15..207W}, doi = {10.1007/BF00735293}, journal = {Foundations of Physics}, keywords = {de-broglie-waves, inertia, mass, matter-waves, reference-frames, symmetries}, month = {February}, pages = {207--227}, posted-at = {2009-06-25 18:25:01}, priority = {2}, title = {{De Broglie waves and the nature of mass}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00735293}, volume = {15}, year = {1985} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4959299 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4959299 N2 - In this paper an attempt is made to interpret inertial mass as a consequence of the invariant periodicity associated with physical de Broglie waves. In the case of a free particle, such waves, observed from an arbitrary reference frame, would exhibit the velocity-dependent wavelength given by de Broglie's relation; and it is conjectured that the inertial and additive properties of mass (or, more precisely, the conservation of momentum and energy) can be related to nonlinear interference effects occurring between the de Broglie waves for different particles. This picture could throw light on the physical meaning of quantization and suggests the possibility of reformulating classical and quantum mechanics in terms of a ``quasi-classical'' nonlinear field theory in which both inertial and quantization effects result essentially from the periodicity of de Broglie waves. JF - Foundations of Physics EP - 227 TI - {De Broglie waves and the nature of mass} VL - 15 SP - 207 KW - de-broglie-waves KW - inertia KW - mass KW - matter-waves KW - reference-frames KW - symmetries AU - {wignall}, JWG PY - 1985/February// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00735293 ER -