Quantum Cybernetics: A New Perspective for Nelson's Stochastic Theory, Nonlocality, and the Klein-Gordon Equation

Abstract

The Klein-Gordon equation is shown to be equivalent to coupled partial differential equations for a sub-quantum Brownian movement of a ''particle'', which is both passively affected by, and actively affecting, a diffusion process of its generally nonlocal environment. This indicates circularly causal, or ''cybernetic'', relationships between ''particles'' and their surroundings. Moreover, in the relativistic domain, the original stochastic theory of Nelson is shown to hold as a limiting case only, i.e., for a vanishing quantum potential.Comment: 21 pages; published in Phys. Lett. A 296 (2002) 1 -