I am particularly interested in liaising with people that are looking at quantum effects by looking at particle (say photon) interactions only, without resorting to wave behaviour.

For example, the twin slit experiment can be done with sound waves, and analysed using wave theory. However, when looking at the molecular level, the interference patterns are generated by a very large number of individual molecular collisions; wave theory is just an easy way to describe the observations.

The non-wave mathematics needed to describe this (the aggregation of many molecular collisions) is beyond my capability, but having described the sonic case, could this could be applied to quantum physical behaviour? With a slight tweak of the maths I think this may be possible and could open up an exciting new area of research.

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