Quantum Mechanics without the quantum

Constantin Antonopoulos, Theodossios Papadimitropoulos

Published 2003-10-20, updated 2003-12-15Version 2

Incompatibility between conjugate variables and complementary pictures comes in two kinds, exclusive of one another. The first kind is unconditional, and the second conditional on quantum's indivisibility. We employ this distinction to study the wave-particle dualism and the energy-time uncertainty relation. Afterwards we look upon the present state of the quantum mechanical formalism. We demonstrate that the two incompatibilities are employed in the same treatment forming a "hybrid" description of the phenomena and leading to a contradiction.