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- OK, so how did you discover the spherical standing wave structure?
- I was curious.
In 1955 I took a course of Quantum Mechanics.
And it was a graduate course.
And I'd never had a course - any course - in Quantum Mechanics.
I assumed that I was very stupid.
I never understood the origin of de Broglie waves,
which says that a particle goes along like this,
it has a wave, which is inversely proportional to its momentum.
Planck's constant divided by the mass, times the velocity. [ h / mv ]
And I said, they called it "de Broglie wavelength", because de Broglie first proposed it.
Of course de Broglie didn't know where it came from either! Nobody ever knew.
But I didn't know that they didn't know.
I just thought I was stupid! I've never opened my mouth in a class!
Thirty years later...
I just kept thinking about that thing. And it just bothered me, all the time.
One day I was reading a book called "All about waves", by a professor of Harvard...
It suddenly ocurred to me. There must be some kind of a complicated Doppler going on.
I wrote down a few equations,
I discovered that only if you have a combination of an inward wave and an outward wave,
then you get the de Broglie wavelengths.
- You were talking about the combination of an inward wave and an outward wave.
of two different particles? - Yeah, yeah. Two different particles.
- So you're talking about an interaction of four waves. - Right, right. There's a particle here and particle there...
- And one's moving relative to the other. - So there it's relative motion. Therefore...
if you write these equations out, you get that the de Broglie wavelength is there.
And I was also amazed to discover that Einstein's increase of mass was there!
All the things, which happened with relative velocity, showed up.
And I said to myself: "This is so simple!" I.. I didn't think I discovered anything!
- And that's the way when you're telling me this matter so it gets a shiver down my spine. - Oh yeah...
- Because what you're telling me is that you...
united Quantum Theory with Einstein's Special Relativity. - Yeah... Yeah, I did...
- That's what you're telling me, isn't it?
- But, this seems so simple to me, because these...
simple... bits of algebra...
weren't all that complicated.
So I've said: "Yeah... This is a natural result."
"I'm sure that somebody else's already found this..."
"Because people investigated Quantum Theory and waves..."
"and people had been using it in that ways for... thirty years!"
They've always thought they were imaginary all, not real.
I went back and I searched for six months
and little by little I realized... nobody... had ever... found this!
I must be the only one.
But... it took several monhts for me to realize that.
When I realized it, I've said: "Gee..."
"I've really got something!"
So I've kept on... studying and investigating it. And of course the result is this book.
This just tells... all of that work.