Re: Double Slit Puzzle Explained (?)

On May 20, 4:15 pm, "Bill Miller" <billmillerkt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Summary

This short note neither proves nor disproves the wave/particle duality of
the electron. It is entirely possible that an electron may be a particle. Or
it may be some form of wave function.

But it DOES demonstrate, using well-established principles, that there is a
reasonable explanation for the double slit puzzle. And that explanation has
nothing to do with statistics nor with quantum mechanics.

Nice try Bill! Too bad your theory has a couple of holes in it.

Here's why. First off, it is NOT any radiation that is interacting at
the detector to form the pattern. The reason is that one can use
various detectors instead of film. The rate and transfer time of
energy in say the photoelectric effect is such that WAVES or radiation
CANNOT be the mechanism! The short transfer time demands a particle
effect of some kind. In other words what is happening would be the
DEFLECTION of the electrons after they leave the slit. So to modify
your theory to conform to observations you have the electrons hurtling
toward the slits. They enter one of them and excite that "slot
antenna" as well as the second antenna as a "parasitic element". Then
the electron leaves it's slit and proceeds toward the detector. The
electron strikes the detector creating a flash at one point in space.
BUT, "somehow" the radiation it induced in the slits can cause the
trajectory of the electron to be altered after it leaves the slit in
such a way that on average they tend to be deflected into angles that
result in a pattern corresponding to the traditional double slit
diffraction pattern.

While the "slot antenna" idea is a good one, as is the idea of the
second slit being a parasitic element to the driven slit, there are I
believe two problems with that. One is that the characteristics of the
slot antenna depends on the material from which it is made. Metal or
plastic (conductor or insulator) makes a difference. In diffraction it
only need be opaque. Plus causality demands a time delay between the
driven element and the parasitic one. This means that the pattern
with an electron going through the right slit will be different from
the pattern with the electron going through the left slit.

Finally we have the problem of the experiment working not only with
electrons (which are traditionally used to drive antennas) but also
the experiment also works with molecules, neutrons and photons which
are electrically neutral. So this means one has to explain how
neutral currents can drive an aperture antenna.

But the bottom line, however, is that you've got the thinking started
in what I believe to be the correct direction. Namely, to say "Well,
just how COULD these experimental results arise from the physics we
know?" rather than the usual approach of just throwing up one's hands
and saying "It simply can never be known!".

Benj
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