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Fringe reference

I removed a reference to

Allmendinger, T. (2016). A Classical Approach to the De Broglie-Wave Based on Bohr’s H-Atom-Model. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 2(1), 1-15.

The paper has 10 citations, 7 by the same author and none in a mainstream review. In my opinion it is not a mainstream source and the concept is proposes is not notable. Johnjbarton (talk) 16:54, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Arezu1337 I draw you attention to this discussion. I reverted your edit that included this reference. Johnjbarton (talk) 17:06, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That journal is from Science Publishing Group, a known predatory publisher. Definitely not suitable as a reference. XOR'easter (talk) 04:49, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation

Special:Diff/1255130459 copies from the reference added in the diff without quotation, which can be verified through Google Books. Since then, that part has been partially edited over but still remains mostly intact. I don't know how cases like this is handled. Naruyoko (talk) 01:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I rolled back to just before that diff and reapplied two changes I made. The other changes I made were just to clean up the material which you identified so we don't need them. I'll leave it to you to notify the editor concerned with this issue. Johnjbarton (talk) 02:25, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"At all scales where measurements have been practical, "

In the introduction, I would replace this phrase by "At all quantum-mechanical scales where measurements have been practical, " and then exaplain it after de Broglie's equation, since large-scale matter does not exhibit interference effects. Chris2crawford (talk) 13:39, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Such a change would require a source to support the new claim. Existing sources suggest that quantum effects are unrelated to "scale" alone. No practical experiment has been devised to test for interference effects at "large scales". Johnjbarton (talk) 19:13, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Subject: How to express matter waves most meaningfully.

Subject: How to express matter waves most meaningfully. using j = 2 pi i E = m c2 = moc2 exp(j t Eo/h) + KE exp[j(x/l – f t )] rest mass temporal wave + KE spatial wave

m c2 = moc2 exp(j t Eo/h) + KE exp[j mc2 (x/vs – t )/h]

m = mo exp(j t moc2/h) + (m-mo) exp[j moc2 ( v2/c2 – 1)t/h] (1-v2/c2)½

+ (m-mo) exp[-j moc2 (1-v2/c2)½ t/h] How is one to interpret this result? Is time dilation the source of the spatia; wave? ~2025-33070-76 (talk) 17:50, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]