Alan,
I was wondering if you have heard of Carver Meade? He has a system similar to yours;
This was an interview from some years ago; http://worrydream.com/refs/Mead%20-%20American%20Spectator%20Interview.html
"That has hung people up ever since the time of Clerk Maxwell, and it's the missing piece of intuition that we need to develop in young people. The electron isn't the disturbance of something else. It is its own thing. The electron is the thing that's wiggling, and the wave is the electron. It is its own medium. You don't need something for it to be in, because if you did it would be buffeted about and all messed up. So the only pure way to have a wave is for it to be its own medium. The electron isn't something that has a fixed physical shape. Waves propagate outwards, and they can be large or small. That's what waves do.
So how big is an electron?
It expands to fit the container it's in. That may be a positive charge that's attracting it--a hydrogen atom--or the walls of a conductor. A piece of wire is a container for electrons. They simply fill out the piece of wire. That's what all waves do. If you try to gather them into a smaller space, the energy level goes up. That's what these Copenhagen guys call the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. But there's nothing uncertain about it. It's just a property of waves. Confine them, and you have more wavelengths in a given space, and that means a higher frequency and higher energy. But a quantum wave also tends to go to the state of lowest energy, so it will expand as long as you let it. You can make an electron that's ten feet across, there's no problem with that. It's its own medium, right? And it gets to be less and less dense as you let it expand. People regularly do experiments with neutrons that are a foot across.
A ten-foot electron! Amazing.
It could be a mile. The electrons in my superconducting magnet are that long.
A mile-long electron! That alters our picture of the world--most people's minds think about atoms as tiny solar systems.
Right, that's what I was brought up on--this little grain of something. Now it's true that if you take a proton and you put it together with an electron, you get something that we call a hydrogen atom. But what that is, in fact, is a self-consistent solution of the two waves interacting with each other. They want to be close together because one's positive and the other is negative, and when they get closer that makes the energy lower. But if they get too close they wiggle too much and that makes the energy higher. So there's a place where they are just right, and that's what determines the size of the hydrogen atom. And that optimum is a self-consistent solution of the Schrodinger equation."
An observation of my own is that I think we see time backwards. Since we experience reality as flashes of cognition, we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future, which physics codifies as measures of duration, between events. The logical cause is change turning future to past, as tomorrow becomes yesterday because the earth turns.
This makes time an effect, similar to temperature. Duration is simply the present, as events coalesce and dissolve.
Time is asymmetric because action is inertial. The earth turns one direction, not both.
Different clocks can run at different rates because they are separate actions. A faster clock will use energy quicker, like an animal with higher metabolism will age quicker than one with a slower rate.
This flow of events from future probability to present actuality and residual past goes to various other issues, such as determinism. As the occurrence of an event is the calculation of its input and pre-determination would be assuming the information of the input could be acquired prior to the energy carrying it.
