Beyond Copenhagen: The Hydrogen Interpretation of Quantum and Relativistic Phenomena

This paper introduces the Hydrogen Interpretation (HI), a deterministic, mechanical framework for quantum and relativistic phenomena. Energy reconfiguration is defined as a "transaction" governed by a continuous field process, and the wavefunction is a map of accessible potential within the transactional field. The framework rests on a single master equation with three terms: Sustained Local Access (locality and time), Density Limitation (saturation), and Coalescence (aggregation), calibrated once to the hydrogen ground state. The same equation generates electromagnetism at atomic scales and gravity at macroscopic scales, and derives atomic structure, chemical bonding, and the periodic table as a resonance spectrum including all seven nuclear magic numbers (2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126) via a spinor extension with one additional nuclear calibration. The galactic rotation fit for NGC 6503 yields chi-squared ~ 16 compared with ~ 498 for Newtonian gravity using visible mass alone (three parameters). Testable predictions include a sharp frequency threshold for fusion plasma stability (0.1% sensitivity at the plasma frequency), resonant acceleration of Tc-99 decay at 142.7 keV and 293.7 keV, and a 0.047 V transconductance peak (width 0.002 V) in 2 nm silicon transistors. The framework is explicit about all limits: the spin-orbit magnitude requires one nuclear calibration; the galactic field contribution requires a more rigorous derivation; the transistor prediction requires extension to open non-equilibrium systems; many-body nuclear saturation remains an open problem.