Universal Journal of Physics and Application Vol. 5(1), pp. 1 - 30
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DE BROGLIE WAVES AND PSEUDOTACHYONIC RELATIVITY

AUTHOR(S) INFORMATION: Dias Ferreira L.T.

ABSTRACT

Despite their author, de Broglie waves for ordinary (bradyonic) particles are often considered without physical signification, mainly because they are tachyonic. I revisit some of de Broglie's original ideas and discuss the standard approach to the problem, the "wave packet" overlapped to a de Broglie wave. Using Pseudotachyonic Theory, it's easy to conclude that this tachyonic wave actually exists but may only be detected with the same velocity of its associated particle. Furthermore, in what comes to "dualities", it appears that wave and particle are not two aspects of the same thing but instead two different though intimately correlated entities. These reflections concern the physical nature of de Broglie waves, including particles "internal vibration", and lead to the premises of a new general Field Theory. Including positive as well as negative energies, at a fundamental level, this Field Theory will probably allow to unify the theoretical study of all known forces, mainly gravitational and electrostatic interactions. For now, with respect to gravity, a fundamental triple conclusion is established: • Two particles attract each other;• Two antiparticles also attract each other;• A particle and an antiparticle repel each other.