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De Broglie's double-solution postulated a causal model of Quantum Mechanics. Knowledge of the photon structure was needed to model the particle part of the cause of the Double Slit interference experiments (DSE). One of the observations of the DSE is that the spacing of the minima is dependent on the energy (wavelength, color) of the light. Several experiments reject the wave nature of light. Therefore, the minima depend on the structure of the photon. This leaves the problem of explaining the DSE and interference experiment with photons rather than waves. There are 2 interference experiments that reject wave models and that seem particularly difficult to explain: the Afshar Experiment and the "Interference Experiment with a Transparent Mask Rejects Wave Models of Light",

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=93056

https://doi.org/10.4236/opj.2019.96008

Further, the Huygens-Fresnel assumptions have been effective at describing the screen pattern of the DSE, but not of the above mentioned experiments. So, the added requirement is that the suggested model of the structure should reduce to Huygens-Fresnel model.

The STOE model suggests a toy computer simulation that does this. However, it has problems when attempting to scale up. So, it is incomplete or incorrect. Note that wave enthusiasts have a different problem of explaining the "particle experiments", such as the photoelectric effect, with a wave model. This also has not been done.

Riadh Al Rabeh "3D numerical experiments with the double slit geometry using neutral dipole particles" on RG has suggested a simulation that could satisfy the above experiments. However, I've been unable to have the simulation with such a structure to form a sinc() function on the screen and the inclusion of a random function is problematical. Perhaps Andre Michaud's "On de Broglie double-particle photon hypothesis" may be an advance, but how?

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