Another explanation of the 2 slit experiment
3rd November 2014
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Another explanation of the 2 slit experiment.
I have been meaning to explain the 2 slit experiment in more detail for some time now, but have been putting it off because I wanted to include the detailed mathematics to go with it, so that everyone can understand it without anyone contradicting it's feasibility. Unfortunately I have not acquired my (mathematical) confidence to achieve this as yet, so for now I will leave this to the mathematicians.
As always I say that the concepts must come first, so that you can fully understand what is happening.
What I say is that the double slit experiment has been misunderstood, which has led to the wrong conclusion that the photon or electron goes through both slits at the same time and causes interference patterns. This also led to the conclusion that the photon or electron is in many places (points) at the same time until it is observed (this is actually true, but with a slightly different meaning), which then led to the many worlds theory and parallel universes where everything is possible!
Let us get back to the double slit. Firstly whenever you test (i.e. Observe) to see which slit the photon or electron has gone through it never goes through both slits. It is 100% either through one slit or the other. The current explanation is that the wave function (the wave) collapses when you observe it, but when not observed it acts as a wave and goes through both slits.
Now I agree with the first part that the wave collapses when you observe it, but I do not agree with the second part which says that it goes through both slits when not observed.
The reason that I do not agree with this is as follows.
[By the way it can go through both slits, but not in this context].
Back to my original saying that concepts come first.
What is a particle?
What is a wave?
(What is a wavicle?)
(These are explained in another Tea Break Book).
The concept I wish you to consider is that the Universe is ultimately made from something else that can mimic all the above in different circumstances. It is just one fundamental dynamic entity (building unit) that can explain all the above. At present it is not important what it is (it's properties is explained in another Tea Break Book).
What is important is that you understand (the concept of) how a photon or electron can go through only one slit, yet cause interference patterns with itself on the other side, making it appear as if it went through both slits when not observed.
To do this I have come up with a simplified explanation, so you can visualise how this may be possible.
Let us imagine that the photon or electron is a balloon and it has a buoyancy that allows it to float in the water so that half of it is under the water and half of it is above the water.
Remember that the photon is neither a wave nor a particle and that it is not really a balloon, but that it is made of something else, floating in this water. The water is the medium in which it floats, but as I said before everything is made of just one entity, so the water is also made of the same thing as the balloon, but because of it's circumstances it behaves differently.
You must desist from dismissing the medium. The current belief of many is that there is no medium, we can calculate waves etc, without the need for a medium. This does not mean that the medium is not there. Again many believe that there is no medium because we have not been able to detect it, they expect a drag in the medium with the movement of celestial bodies etc. the reason that they do not detect a drag is that the medium is not static, it is dynamic and it actually assists and contributes to the movement (explained in another Tea Break Book).
In other words it is not like a calm lake where you would expect drag on your boat as you move forward, it is more like a fast moving river and you will not experience any drag until your boat moves at least as fast as the flow of the river and only when you try and go faster than the flow of the river will you experience any drag.
This only occurs in the medium at near light speeds (which is why you cannot go faster than light, again explained further in another Tea Break Book, but basically because the energy you are supplying to go faster is made of the same thing as the medium, all you do is convert the kinetic energy into potential energy in the form of mass).
Back to the example: - the balloon as a photon or electron has wave characteristics, so imagine the balloon inflating and deflating i.e. getting bigger then smaller (it would do this even if it did not move in any direction). It will as a consequence create ripples in the water (medium).
For simplification we are ignoring the movement of the medium.
The medium as a wave (wave-like characteristics) will travel through both slits.
Now imagine the balloon travelling forwards to one of the slits, it will create a wave in the medium in front of it (just like a ship moving forwards in the sea) except that the wave will also have a wave movement, unlike a ship that is solid, it is pulsating as it moves forwards.
If there was only one slit and you considered the balloon a particle (particle-like characteristics), you would get the normal distribution of particles on your detector.
But what will happen with 2 slits?
The balloon will still go through only one slit at a time, but it will cause ripples in the medium that will go through the other slit and the ripples will interact with the wave function of the balloon and cause it to interfere with itself and you will get an interference pattern.
The wave that is created is of a similar nature to the balloon, the frequency and magnitude of the balloon wave will make the ripples of a similar frequency and magnitude (therefore they will react in a similar way on the other side of the slits), giving the impression that the balloon went through both slits and interfered with itself.
[If you want to complicate things, you can say that the balloon and the medium are different and therefore the frequency and magnitude may be different, but the wave front going through one slit will be of the same magnitude and frequency of the wave going through the second slit, and they will interact {interfere} exactly with each other, and as the balloon floats in this medium it will float on these waves in this interference pattern].
Now you should be able to visualise with the simplified example that it is possible to go through only one slit and still get a similar result. But there are profound consequences to this new interpretation. The main one being: - It does not go through both slits at the same time.
It is not at all possible positions until you observe it, it is limited to all possible positions that the balloon can occupy only. The observation of the balloon still collapses the balloon (wave function), but it is not a true point. The basic fundamental dynamic entity is explained as different volumes (explained in another Tea Break Book) and is only summarised as a point for simplification and calculation, but it is never a point. Another reason that things appear to move in different (extra) dimensions is because we summarise things as points and therefore have to give these points spin, momentum and energy that is not in the point itself, but it is incorporated in the points that surround it. It is this complex volume around these imaginary points that exist and these dimensions are not hidden (they are miss understood). All the dimensions are here and now (you guessed it another Tea Break Book).
This then leads me to the conclusion that the many worlds theory doesn't have to exist, and is only abstract thinking, there does not have to be parallel universes in the conventional way, all parallel universes are all here and now, all superimposed in this one Universe (not of multiple versions of us). When we make a choice there is only one existence at any one time (time is complex and again explained further in another Tea break Book). When you understand Time you will notice there are no paradoxes, similar to the 2 slit experiment where the paradox disappears.
9th June 2015
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Last week I came across something called Bohmian mechanics. It appears that this also explains the 2 slit experiment with something more realistic than current quantum mechanics, and the photon only needs to go through one slit and you still get interference. No magic needed, just another guiding wave to the Schrödinger's equation. I can only conclude that if you know about Bohmian mechanics and you dismiss it for standard quantum mechanics then you are still deluded from 'Reality'. The only thing that is missing is the structure that contains or explains these missing variables.
26th August 2019
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Just saw an interesting intro to Lee Smolin's new book where he explains "Realists", I am a Realist, he explains that the pilot wave theory is a realist theory that explains quantum mechanics in a realistic theory. This is similar to my balloon example except that in the pilot wave theory particles are guided by (pilot) waves. In my model true particles nor true waves exist, but both are characteristics of the 'APE's that create them. He also mentioned that "locality" doesn't exist, so normal space can't exist using locality! This is only true at the quantum or microscopic level because of 'entanglement', but it is not true at the macroscopic level where the distances can be sufficiently far apart that locality can exist. In other words 'locality' is an emergent property like our other dimensions of space. I think of 'entanglement' as either the 'knotted' 'APE's themselves or the flow of (space) the 'APE's connecting them, at great enough distance the flow is interrupted and entanglement stops and locality exists.
You have to think of space as dynamic 'complex volumes' of 'APE's which are also dynamic complex volumes in themselves. (Another Tea Break Book, 'Volumes, volumes and volumes').
Morph your mind with Morphological at
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Another explanation of the 2 slit experiment.
I have been meaning to explain the 2 slit experiment in more detail for some time now, but have been putting it off because I wanted to include the detailed mathematics to go with it, so that everyone can understand it without anyone contradicting it's feasibility. Unfortunately I have not acquired my (mathematical) confidence to achieve this as yet, so for now I will leave this to the mathematicians.
As always I say that the concepts must come first, so that you can fully understand what is happening.
What I say is that the double slit experiment has been misunderstood, which has led to the wrong conclusion that the photon or electron goes through both slits at the same time and causes interference patterns. This also led to the conclusion that the photon or electron is in many places (points) at the same time until it is observed (this is actually true, but with a slightly different meaning), which then led to the many worlds theory and parallel universes where everything is possible!
Let us get back to the double slit. Firstly whenever you test (i.e. Observe) to see which slit the photon or electron has gone through it never goes through both slits. It is 100% either through one slit or the other. The current explanation is that the wave function (the wave) collapses when you observe it, but when not observed it acts as a wave and goes through both slits.
Now I agree with the first part that the wave collapses when you observe it, but I do not agree with the second part which says that it goes through both slits when not observed.
The reason that I do not agree with this is as follows.
[By the way it can go through both slits, but not in this context].
Back to my original saying that concepts come first.
What is a particle?
What is a wave?
(What is a wavicle?)
(These are explained in another Tea Break Book).
The concept I wish you to consider is that the Universe is ultimately made from something else that can mimic all the above in different circumstances. It is just one fundamental dynamic entity (building unit) that can explain all the above. At present it is not important what it is (it's properties is explained in another Tea Break Book).
What is important is that you understand (the concept of) how a photon or electron can go through only one slit, yet cause interference patterns with itself on the other side, making it appear as if it went through both slits when not observed.
To do this I have come up with a simplified explanation, so you can visualise how this may be possible.
Let us imagine that the photon or electron is a balloon and it has a buoyancy that allows it to float in the water so that half of it is under the water and half of it is above the water.
Remember that the photon is neither a wave nor a particle and that it is not really a balloon, but that it is made of something else, floating in this water. The water is the medium in which it floats, but as I said before everything is made of just one entity, so the water is also made of the same thing as the balloon, but because of it's circumstances it behaves differently.
You must desist from dismissing the medium. The current belief of many is that there is no medium, we can calculate waves etc, without the need for a medium. This does not mean that the medium is not there. Again many believe that there is no medium because we have not been able to detect it, they expect a drag in the medium with the movement of celestial bodies etc. the reason that they do not detect a drag is that the medium is not static, it is dynamic and it actually assists and contributes to the movement (explained in another Tea Break Book).
In other words it is not like a calm lake where you would expect drag on your boat as you move forward, it is more like a fast moving river and you will not experience any drag until your boat moves at least as fast as the flow of the river and only when you try and go faster than the flow of the river will you experience any drag.
This only occurs in the medium at near light speeds (which is why you cannot go faster than light, again explained further in another Tea Break Book, but basically because the energy you are supplying to go faster is made of the same thing as the medium, all you do is convert the kinetic energy into potential energy in the form of mass).
Back to the example: - the balloon as a photon or electron has wave characteristics, so imagine the balloon inflating and deflating i.e. getting bigger then smaller (it would do this even if it did not move in any direction). It will as a consequence create ripples in the water (medium).
For simplification we are ignoring the movement of the medium.
The medium as a wave (wave-like characteristics) will travel through both slits.
Now imagine the balloon travelling forwards to one of the slits, it will create a wave in the medium in front of it (just like a ship moving forwards in the sea) except that the wave will also have a wave movement, unlike a ship that is solid, it is pulsating as it moves forwards.
If there was only one slit and you considered the balloon a particle (particle-like characteristics), you would get the normal distribution of particles on your detector.
But what will happen with 2 slits?
The balloon will still go through only one slit at a time, but it will cause ripples in the medium that will go through the other slit and the ripples will interact with the wave function of the balloon and cause it to interfere with itself and you will get an interference pattern.
The wave that is created is of a similar nature to the balloon, the frequency and magnitude of the balloon wave will make the ripples of a similar frequency and magnitude (therefore they will react in a similar way on the other side of the slits), giving the impression that the balloon went through both slits and interfered with itself.
[If you want to complicate things, you can say that the balloon and the medium are different and therefore the frequency and magnitude may be different, but the wave front going through one slit will be of the same magnitude and frequency of the wave going through the second slit, and they will interact {interfere} exactly with each other, and as the balloon floats in this medium it will float on these waves in this interference pattern].
Now you should be able to visualise with the simplified example that it is possible to go through only one slit and still get a similar result. But there are profound consequences to this new interpretation. The main one being: - It does not go through both slits at the same time.
It is not at all possible positions until you observe it, it is limited to all possible positions that the balloon can occupy only. The observation of the balloon still collapses the balloon (wave function), but it is not a true point. The basic fundamental dynamic entity is explained as different volumes (explained in another Tea Break Book) and is only summarised as a point for simplification and calculation, but it is never a point. Another reason that things appear to move in different (extra) dimensions is because we summarise things as points and therefore have to give these points spin, momentum and energy that is not in the point itself, but it is incorporated in the points that surround it. It is this complex volume around these imaginary points that exist and these dimensions are not hidden (they are miss understood). All the dimensions are here and now (you guessed it another Tea Break Book).
This then leads me to the conclusion that the many worlds theory doesn't have to exist, and is only abstract thinking, there does not have to be parallel universes in the conventional way, all parallel universes are all here and now, all superimposed in this one Universe (not of multiple versions of us). When we make a choice there is only one existence at any one time (time is complex and again explained further in another Tea break Book). When you understand Time you will notice there are no paradoxes, similar to the 2 slit experiment where the paradox disappears.
9th June 2015
Private & Confidential Copyright © Mr A Pépés
Last week I came across something called Bohmian mechanics. It appears that this also explains the 2 slit experiment with something more realistic than current quantum mechanics, and the photon only needs to go through one slit and you still get interference. No magic needed, just another guiding wave to the Schrödinger's equation. I can only conclude that if you know about Bohmian mechanics and you dismiss it for standard quantum mechanics then you are still deluded from 'Reality'. The only thing that is missing is the structure that contains or explains these missing variables.
26th August 2019
Private & Confidential Copyright © Mr A Pépés
Just saw an interesting intro to Lee Smolin's new book where he explains "Realists", I am a Realist, he explains that the pilot wave theory is a realist theory that explains quantum mechanics in a realistic theory. This is similar to my balloon example except that in the pilot wave theory particles are guided by (pilot) waves. In my model true particles nor true waves exist, but both are characteristics of the 'APE's that create them. He also mentioned that "locality" doesn't exist, so normal space can't exist using locality! This is only true at the quantum or microscopic level because of 'entanglement', but it is not true at the macroscopic level where the distances can be sufficiently far apart that locality can exist. In other words 'locality' is an emergent property like our other dimensions of space. I think of 'entanglement' as either the 'knotted' 'APE's themselves or the flow of (space) the 'APE's connecting them, at great enough distance the flow is interrupted and entanglement stops and locality exists.
You have to think of space as dynamic 'complex volumes' of 'APE's which are also dynamic complex volumes in themselves. (Another Tea Break Book, 'Volumes, volumes and volumes').
Morph your mind with Morphological at
apepes.com