The Double-Slit Experiment in the Infinite Universe

in #science7 years ago (edited)

Quantum Mechanics

"The observation of interference patterns in double-slit experiments with massive particles is generally regarded as the ultimate demonstration of the quantum nature of these objects." "The build-up of such patterns in experiments with electrons has been described as the 'most beautiful experiment in physics.'" - Juffmann et al.

The double-slit experiment is widely viewed as the most important experiment ever done to show that quantum mechanics is true, as its foundation.

Experiment of Juffmann et al.

In the experiment, "Real-time single-molecule imaging of quantum interference", Juffmann et al. emit phthalocyanine molecules, PcH2, through nanoslits to arrive at an interference pattern. In order to achieve this, "massive particles...need to be slow[ed] to achieve sizeable diffraction angles." (Page 3).

In addition, the size of the slits was reduced to 10nm:

"In order to minimize the dispersive van der Waals (vdW) interaction between the molecules and the grating wall we reduced the grating thickness from 160 nm in earlier diffraction experiments5,20 to as little as 10 nm in our present setup. This is important for the manipulation of complex molecules, which may exhibit high polarizabilities, permanent and even thermally induced electric dipole moments26,27."

With the combination of a low velocity of the molecules through the slit and a sufficiently narrow slit, they were able to achieve the result of an interference pattern as follows:
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Juffmann et al.

The widening of the pattern as it goes downward is explained:

"Quantum diffraction fans out the molecular beam in the horizontal direction. Gravity sorts the molecular beam by velocity from fast at the top to slow at the bottom."

The video for this can be seen here:

The Double-Slit Experiment in the Infinite Universe

The critical detail here is that these results are interpreted as demonstrative of the wave nature of the particles.

However, the universe is infinite, comprising infinitely large particles and infinitely small particles. The force of gravity manipulates these systems into the universe as we see it. It is that simple. For example, this model non-trivially shows how gravity produces electromagnetism, which can be read about here.

In the double-slit experiment, what is really happening is not complicated. Rather, it is as simple as this: the local gravity of the slit material influences the angle the particles passing through the slit travel. Due to the experiment of Juffmann et al. using relatively high mass molecules, they cannot achieve an interference pattern when the molecules travel through at a high velocity nor when the slit is too large because the probability of the molecule traveling in a position proximal enough to the slit and with sufficient exposure to the gravity gradient so as to be deflected by the local gravity is small. However, when they specifically travel through a sufficiently small slit slowly enough, they are influenced by the local gravity of the slit.

Dependent on the precise positioning of the particle as it passes through the slit, relative to the slit material, they will be deflected by local gravity at different angles. This produces the equivalent of a wave--which is really just many particles traveling together just like a wave in the ocean--when the summation of many particles passing individually is considered as in the Juffmann et al. experiment. Thereby, it arises in an interference pattern.

It is no more complicated than that. This is why their results show that when the particles pass through the slit at a lower velocity--those producing the lower portion of the interference pattern--they become more widely spread. Due to their lower velocity, they are exposed to the local gravity of the slit relatively longer than the particles passing through at a higher velocity. This, then, leads to increased deflection of the flow pattern of the particles. These particles are not somehow simultaneously waves, as is the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is an approximation, which is why it is not applicable to the large-scale structures of the universe. The universe is not complicated, but becomes complicated when we use approximations to describe it. In reality, it is as simple as gravity in an infinite structure.

Light

The same can be said of light passing through a double-slit experiment design. It is not that light has wave-particle duality, but rather that light is a grouping of particles traveling together as a wave. Due to their much smaller mass, their direction of travel is able to be influenced by the local gravity of the slit even when passing at the speed of light.

The specific wavelength of light is just a measure of the actual mass of the particles of which it is composed. Higher energy light, such as x-ray light, is composed of more massive particles than lower energy light, such as radio waves. Due to the limitations of our technology, we are unable to actually measure the mass of these particles and so we have assumed them to have no mass. This is a misinterpretation of light that stems from looking at it as fundamentally different from everything else in the universe. It is not.

This was demonstrated by Firstenberg et al., who showed that under the right conditions we can detect that photons travel as massive particles. In their experiment, they used a vacuum and a highly interactive particle in order to detect photons travel as massive particles. This is because they do have a mass.

Observer Effect

When we observe the positioning of particles passing through the slit, we radiate high intensity light into the slit. This causes the interference pattern to collapse into a particulate pattern. This is known as the observer effect. This occurs because we are actively influencing the local gravity so that the particles are no longer deflected by gravity. In other words, we are doing much more than just observing the particles, we are influencing their ability to be deflected by the local gravity of the slit.

Conclusion

The double-slit experiment is extremely misinterpreted and this has led to many extravagant claims about reality. In truth, it is very simply the result of gravity. Nothing more and nothing less.

For more information, check out my other posts here on Steemit or visit my website, CascadingUniverse.Org

References

  1. Juffmann et al., "Real-time single-molecule imaging of quantum interference", Quantum Physics, 2014.
  2. Firstenberg et al., "Attractive Photons in a Quantum Non-linear Medium", Nature 502, 71-75 (2013).

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