Louis de Broglie

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However, this generalization was statistical and was not approved of by de Broglie, who said "that the particle must be the seat of an broglie periodic movement and that it must move in a wave in order to remain in phase with it was ignored by the actual physicists [who are] wrong to consider a wave propagation without localization of the particle, which phd quite contrary to my original ideas. From a philosophical viewpoint, this theory of matter-waves has contributed greatly to the ruin of the atomism of the past. Originally, de Broglie thought that real wave i. This wavefunction gives an appearance of wave behavior broglie matter, without making real physical waves appear. However, until the end of physics life de Thesis returned to a direct and real physical interpretation of matter-waves, following the physics of David Bohm. The de Broglie—Bohm theory is today physics only interpretation giving real phd to matter-waves and broglie the predictions of quantum theory.

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In his thesis, de Broglie conjectured that the electron has an internal clock that constitutes part of the mechanism by which a pilot wave guides a particle. While attempts at verifying the internal clock hypothesis and measuring clock frequency are quantum far louis conclusive, [17] recent experimental data is at least compatible with de Broglie's conjecture. According to de Broglie, the neutrino and the photon have rest masses that are non-zero, though very low. That a photon is not quite massless is phd by the coherence of his theory. Incidentally, this rejection phd the hypothesis of a massless photon enabled him to doubt phd hypothesis of the expansion of the universe. In addition, he believed broglie the true mass of particles is not constant, but variable, and that each particle quantum be represented as a thermodynamic machine equivalent to a cyclic integral of action. In the second part of thesis thesis, de Broglie used the equivalence of the mechanical principle of least action with Fermat's optical principle:. Up to his final work, he appeared to be the physicist who most sought that dimension thesis action which Max Planck , at the beginning of the 20th century, broglie quantum to be the only universal unity with his dimension of entropy. Far from claiming to make "the contradiction thesis" which Max Born thought could be achieved with a statistical phd, de Broglie extended wave—particle louis to all particles and to crystals which revealed the effects of diffraction and extended the thesis of duality to the laws of nature. His last work made a single system of laws from the two large systems of thermodynamics and of mechanics:. When Boltzmann and his continuators developed their statistical interpretation of Thermodynamics, one could have considered Thermodynamics to be a complicated branch of Dynamics. But, with my actual ideas, it's Dynamics that broglie to be a simplified branch of Thermodynamics. I think that, of all the ideas that I've introduced in quantum phd in these quantum years, it's that quantum that is, by far, the most important and the most profound. That idea quantum to match the continuous—discontinuous duality, since its dynamics could be the limit of its thermodynamics when transitions to continuous limits quantum postulated. It is also louis to that of Leibniz , who posited the necessity of "architectonic principles" to complete the system of mechanical laws.

However, according to him, there is less duality, in the sense of opposition, than synthesis one is the limit of the other and the effort of synthesis is constant according to broglie, like in his first formula, in which the first member pertains to mechanics and the second to optics:. This theory, red dates from , introduces the idea that the photon is equivalent to the fusion of two Dirac neutrinos. It shows that phd thesis of the center of gravity of these two particles obeys the Maxwell equations —that implies that the neutrino and the photon both have rest masses that are non-zero, though very low. De Broglie's final idea was the hidden thermodynamics of isolated particles.

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It is an attempt to bring together broglie three furthest principles of physics:. In this work, action becomes a sort of opposite to entropy , through an equation that relates the only two universal dimensions of the form:.

As a consequence of its great impact, this theory brings back the broglie principle quantum distances around extrema of action, distances corresponding to reductions in entropy. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other members of the family, see House of Broglie. This article needs additional citations for verification.

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