Propagation of Digital Excitation in the Gate Field

Abstract

Many compelling similarities among mechanical phenomena, including quantum-mechanical phenomena and digital-circuit transients provide motivation to initiate a research project to examine whether or not there is any deep-level connection among them. The theory of relativity showed that mass is a form of energy. Why, then, can a digital excitation that carries energy not be considered to be a mass point? Yet such a study would only serve to satisfy pure academic curiosity, if that were its only rationale. There are other incentives to go forward with such a study. Since its introduction, the quantum world has remained a fantasy world, accessible only to those armed with logical reasoning and advanced mathematics. The connection between the digital circuit and quantum mechanics provides a new viewpoint. Since the advent of the microprocessor, digital circuits are everywhere. As a model of the quantum world, they can help make the mystery world more accessible. At this point, a basic question must be asked: is the quantum world really unusual or exotic, or it is just a part of nature that happened to escape our attention until recent years due to a lack of familiar examples? I am inclined to believe that the quantum world is really a part of tangible nature and that it can have many varieties. The function of the human mind has been attributed by several influential authors to quantum-mechanical phenomena (Stapp, 1993; Penrose, 1994). Yet the neuronic systems are more concretely described as a special digital circuit than as a quantum-mechanical object. What then are the functional connections between the two?