3 papers
quant-ph2026
Is the H Atom Surrounded by A Cloud of Virtual Quanta Due to the Lamb Shift?
G. Jordan Maclay
\abstract{The Lamb shift, one of the most fundamental interactions in atomic physics, arises from the interaction of H atoms with the electromagnetic fluctuations of the quantum va…
quant-ph2019
The Role of Vacuum Fluctuations and Symmetry in the Hydrogen Atom in Quantum Mechanics and Stochastic Electrodynamics (SED)
G. Jordan Maclay
Stochastic Electrodynamics (SED) has had success modeling black body radiation, the harmonic oscillator, the Casimir effect, van der Waals forces, diamagnetism, and uniform acceler…
gr-qc2018
Effect of quantum and thermal jitter on the feasibility of Beckenstein's proposed experiment to search for Planck-scale signals
G. Jordan Maclay, S. A. Wadood, Eric D. Black +1
A proposed experiment to test whether space is discretized [J. D. Bekenstein, Phys. Rev. D 86, 124040 (2012); Found. Phys. 44, 452 (2014)] is based on the supposed impossibility of…