  It is shown that all of the basic properties of the hydrogen atom can be
consistently described in terms of classical electrodynamics instead of taking
the electron to be a particle; we consider an electrically charged classical
wave field, an "electron wave", which is held in a limited region of space by
the electrostatic field of the proton. It is shown that quantum mechanics must
be considered to be not a theory of particles but a classical field theory in
the spirit of classical electrodynamics. In this case, we are not faced with
difficulties in interpreting the results of the theory. In the framework of
classical electrodynamics, all of the well-known regularities of the
spontaneous emission of the hydrogen atom are obtained, which is usually
derived in the framework of quantum electrodynamics. It is shown that there are
no discrete states and discrete energy levels of the atom: the energy of the
atom and its states change continuously. An explanation of the conventional
corpuscular-statistical interpretation of atomic phenomena is given. It is
shown that this explanation is only a misinterpretation of continuous
deterministic processes. In the framework of classical electrodynamics, the
nonlinear Schrodinger equation is obtained, which accounts for the inverse
action of self-electromagnetic radiation of the electron wave and completely
describes the spontaneous emissions of an atom.
