Re: One Photon Double Slit Reinterpretations

From: Bjoern Feuerbacher (feuerbac_at_thphys.uni-heidelberg.de)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:17:40 +0100

Landle wrote:
>

[snip]

> If it's the latter. What if light is caused by stream
> of expanding electrons from Sefton nucleus. This can
> debunk the photon particle/wave duality myth (current
> view of QM).

How on earth would that explain the results of the double-slit
experiment?

> The following describe how the single photon experiment
> can be misinterpreted.
>
> "Since a regular-intensity light beam would normally
> expand across the entire distance from the source to
> the detector, our detectors are designed to trigger
> based on this forceful stream of electron clusters
> continually arriving under their combined expansion
> pressure. If such a beam has its source cut off before
> arriving, it becomes an orphaned partial stream of
> electron clusters in mid-air that is free to dissipate
> much of its expansion pressure before reaching the
> detector. This is rather like a string coiled against
> a wall, which shoots away from the wall and strikes
> a nearby target when it allowed to uncoil. If the
> wall is removed part-way through the uncoiling
> process, the spring is unable to launch itself
> forward with its normal full strengh and strikes
> the target with much less force. In fact, depending
> on when the wall is removed, the spring may not even
> make it all the way to the target. Similarly, the
> space between the source and the detector in the
> double-slit experiment may be filled with bursts
> of unseen partial light beams that are unable to
> trigger the detector but nonetheless pass through
> the slits and interfere with each other much as before.
> The occasional beam that is supplied by the source
> long enough to be detected (currently thought of as
> a single photon fired across the distance) would still
> be affected by interference between these unseen
> light beams; it would simply take longer to build up
> the interference pattern at the detector".

Err, what on earth has this stinking heap of horsedung
to do with explaining the formation of an interference
pattern?

> (from Mark
> Mccutcheon .... note I don't believe in his theory
> in general, just want to point out his alleged
> explanations of the double slit experiment and apply it
> elsewhere (to Sefton and Y.Porat hypotheses))

There was no explanation of the results of that experiments
above.

> What do you think guys?

That the above is horsedung.

> The double slit is one major contribution to Quantum
> Mechanics. To take apart QM, you have to first deal
> with the weak points. If one can debunk the double
> slit experiment esp the single photon producing
> interference over months thing, then de_broglie is
> debunked and so the rest of the domino fall.

Err, even if one would achieve explaining the double-slit
experiment without particle-wave duality (and the above
is far from doing that), that would only show that there
is an alternative possible explanation for that one effect.
That would not debunk QM at all.

> I'm thinking of ways of how to support Y.Porat electrons
> as NOT probability clouds but connected to the nucleus
> like some sort of tree (also adding Sefton assertion
> that the nucleus eject electrons) by reinterpreting
> the double slit experiments.

Say, do you fall for *every* crackpot idea you encounter?

Why don't you educate yourself first?

Bye,
Bjoern

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