Researcher claims photon model fails

Researcher claims photon model fails
Quantum mechanics demonstration

Modern physics considers light to have both particle
and wave properties ? a paradox! But independent
researcher Eric Reiter has devised an experiment and
theory to show that light has nothing to do with particles
at all. There is a famous thought experiment of Einstein?s
that is in essence the definition of the photon: a photon
should go one way or the other at a partially reflecting
mirror. But what does nature say, and how do we ask?

Previous embodiments of this experiment have supported
photons. In Reiter?s experiment the light is gamma rays,
and the mirror is one of two detectors. Reiter?s detectors
show that a gamma ray can split and go both ways,
therefore violating the definition of the photon. In
hundreds of repetitions and tens of variations, the
experimental results decisively refute the predictions of
quantum mechanics.

If gamma rays, the most particle-like form of light, are not
photons, then there can be no photons. Reiter claims this
failure of quantum mechanics lets us see what is really going
on: an accumulation effect in matter. Reiter claims there
are many distortions in our textbooks that have tricked
generations of students away from realizing this accumulation
effect.

The demonstration will take place at the Downward Dog
Yoga Studio in Pacifica at 94 West Manor Drive, Sat. & Sun.,
July 16 & 17, 1 - 4 pm. Reiter works from his home in
Pacifica and has posted all the details on his website at
http://www.unquantum.com.

For more information contact:
Eric Reiter
650 738 9005
eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx




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