Querido Professor Santos,
I very much enjoyed your essay. In contrast to many essays here, yours associated in my head with cielos despejados y mucha, mucha luz. I fully agree with you that the fundamental assumption of the physical model behind the quantum theory should be the reality of the universal noise, even at 0° K, existing for all fields exchanging energies in a dynamic equilibrium.
I too cannot accept the lack of strict causality of natural laws. But I explain the quantum probabilities --in addition to the quantum noise-- with uncertainties derived from the projections from a higher spatial dimension onto a lower-dimensional space. For example, there are infinitely many ways of projecting a cube onto a 2D plane, all of which can be classified according to several configurations they make. My 4D model (+time) offers a geometrical explanation of how the same cause may have somewhat different effects, because the 4D particle reality is projected onto the 3D hyperplane that we perceive as our space. Unfortunately, I did not go into these details in my essay, but I did a quick write up in the post #50 in my thread (topic 1547), where I attempt to show that in 4D, it is hardly a mystery why both matter and light appear to move in waves.
That every particle may have an associated wave is incongruous to me too. And I daresay that not only the quantum noise is real, but that there is indeed a medium that is doing the waving. But don't you worry, there is no ether in my model. In fact I do not bother with details and offer a top down scheme of the world in 4D (+time) at low energies of our own experience.
Overall, my setup is in line with models with large extra dimension, where the radiation is confined to the 3-brane (which is the hypersurface of a hypersphere in my model), with nuclei gliding just above it in the empty extra dimension. This model shows how both matter (stuff with intrinsic mass) and light move along the same undulating medium contained in the 3-brane, as if it were the hypersurface of a 4D ocean of energy.
I am sorry that I put so much of my idea here in your thread (now I know how I should have written my essay, lol). I did that, because I really would very much value your feedback on it. I feel certain affinity to you, because I very much like your sense of humor, especially your sarcastic remark about radiation being corpuscular, because the number of trees falling in the forest is an integer. A good laugh is a precious rarity in this contest!
Please see the comment #50 in my thread (topic 1547) and give me your feedback. Good or bad, I will value it a lot.
Gracias!