Clockwork Quantum Universe
arXiv:1205.1788
Abstract
Besides the purely digital or analog interpretation of reality there is a third possibility which incorporates important aspects of both. This is the cyclic formulation of elementary systems, in which elementary particles are represented as classical strings vibrating in compact space-time dimensions with periodic boundary conditions. We will address these cyclic solutions as "de Broglie internal clocks". They constitute the deterministic gears of a consistent semi-classical description of quantum relativistic physics, providing in addition an appealing formulation of the notion of time.
IV Prize, FQXi Essay Contest 2011 "Is Reality Digital or Analog?". 8 pages, minor corrections. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1111.3319