These two topics are addressed together because the proposal to explain entanglement poses a solution to the mystery of the quantum mechanics theory lacking an underlying mechanical explanation. The proposal is that Maxwell’s aether provides a logical underlying concept for both entanglement and the quantum mechanics theory. This proposal is set out in the articles Aether Explanation of Entanglement, Phys. Essays 31, 29 (2018) and On Maxwell’s 1865 Theory of Aether: A Step Toward Unity, Phys. Essays 33, 256 (2020).
ENTANGLEMENT
Entanglement is a phenomenon that produces apparently instantaneous communication of electromagnetic characteristics between receptors that are situated at appreciable distances from each other. The above-cited articles consider experiments that observe correlations of electromagnetic characteristics recorded by sensors. The correlated characteristics include levels of energy, momentum, angles of momentum, spin, vibrations, frequencies and wavelengths, patterns of polarization, rotations and torque. The experiments have failed to discover the underlying physical cause of entanglement.
The proposal in regard to entanglement relies on Maxwell’s proposition that aether permeates space and cosmic bodies. From this, it is reasoned that aether permeates the areas in which entanglement experiments have been carried out, including the locations of the sensors and the power sources. It is posited that the readings of electromagnetic characteristics at the sensors are caused by interactions between the aether medium and the sensors, not by way of communications between the sensors. The characteristics are those in the medium while the power source is engaged. They are transmitted as waves through the cells of the aether medium. When the waves reach the aether cells that are adjacent to the sensors, the waves activate those cells. The cells interact with the sensors and transmit the characteristics to the sensors. This accounts for the correlation of the characteristics throughout the aether medium that encompasses the experiments. It follows that sensor readings taken while the power is engaged will be correlated. Thus, the problem of apparent instantaneous communication between the sensors is eliminated.
QUANTUM MECHANICS THEORY
One of the principal characteristics explored by the numerous entanglement experiments is angular momentum, recorded as ”spin up” and “spin down”. Visualize the power sources that are used in the experiments sending out waves that cause the surrounding aether to rotate around the source, much like a conductor that is carrying electric current causes a magnetic field to rotate around the conductor. In this setting, it is understandable that receptors, whether in entanglement experiments or in the vicinity of live conductors, would record angular momentum as spin-up or spin-down depending on the locations of the receptors.
The quantum mechanics theory was developed in the 1920s and is generally accepted by present-day physics for its mathematics. While the mathematics of the quantum mechanics theory has been experimentally verified, there is still no accepted concept of the physical mechanics that underlie the quantum mechanics theory. Finding such a concept to fill this gap remains a challenge to present-day theoretical physics.
The proposal that Maxwell’s aether provides the underlying setting for its mechanics is consistent with Maxwell’s theory that the transmission of electromagnetic radiation is by way interactions within the aether medium that pervades the universe.
It will be noted that the proposal is inconsistent with the travelling photons element of quantum mechanics. The travelling photon approach appears to be on collision course with Maxwell’s waves-through-a-medium theory. This conflict is addressed in the article, On Maxwell’s 1865 Theory of Aether: A Step Toward Unity, at pp. 263-264. It is reasoned that particles cannot travel through space without blockage for billions of light-years and that Maxwell’s waves-through–aether must be the correct approach. While the article does not expressly make this point, it is now suggested that the quantum mechanics theory can remain a logical and consistent theory if it adapts itself to using the cells of Maxwell’s aether in the stead of travelling photons.