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Gerhard Grössing asks where the basic quantum rule that a particle's energy equals Planck's constant times a frequency actually comes from. Rather than accept these quantum oscillations as an axiom, he treats them as the result of known physical laws, since oscillations generally arise from dissipative processes. He models a particle as a dissipative system held in a nonequilibrium steady state by a constant flow of energy. That energy throughput is likely tied to the vacuum, with the zero-point energy as a leading candidate. From this he obtains the shortest derivation of the Schrödinger equation from modern classical physics in the literature, and the only exact one, leading to a vacuum fluctuation theorem aimed at understanding quantum nonlocality.

The vacuum fluctuation theorem: Exact Schroedinger equation via nonequilibrium thermodynamics