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?
Dear Dr John : By the end of the 19th century, the battle over the nature of light as a wave or a collection of particles seemed over. James Clerk Maxwell’s synthesis of electric, magnetic, and optical phenomena and the discovery by Heinrich Hertz of electromagnetic waves were theoretical and experimental triumphs of the first order. Along with Newtonian mechanics and thermodynamics, Maxwell’s electromagnetism took its place as a foundational element of physics. However, just when everything seemed to be settled, a period of revolutionary change was ushered in at the beginning of the 20th century. A new interpretation of the emission of light by heated objects and new experimental methods that opened the atomic world for study led to a radical departure from the classical theories of Newton and Maxwell—quantum mechanics was born. Once again the question of the nature of light was reopened. For more on this have a look at :
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can-we-describe-the-diffraction-of-light-solely-by-its-particle-quality
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-photon-will-decide-when-to-behave-like-a-wave-or-particle
https://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0302/0302062.pdf
and
https://spie.org/OP13O/conferencedetails/photons
I hope the input helps: Regards-
Hi all,
there is a simple solution to the Double-Slit-Experiment, it goes like this:
The photon is a particle. It pas one slit, it's extremely strong EM-field is cut away when passing the slit. Part of this field, pass the other slit, comes out on the other side as a wave, with exactly the same frequency as the wave of the photon, creating the interference pattern. The slits must be close together.
The only real problem is that in the mainstream physic there is a confusion concerning the characteristics of the photon as well as of the EM-field, they are two different phenomena.
JES
Stellan Gustafsson
Experiment rejects your suggested model. First is the single photon in the experiment - the EM field from the other slit cannot be generated by the photon which has already gone thru the other slit. Second, the transparent mask experiment referenced has the second slit being at least a meter ahead of the first slit (time and space separated) and still shows the interference pattern. Although the idea of one slit produced the diffraction pattern and the other diffracts the diffracted pattern to produce the interference pattern is still valid.
I agree with the idea the photon induces (causes) the variation (wave) in some medium (EM field?). But what kind of structure can produce this wave?
Figure 3(c) in your paper can be regarded as two step single-slit diffraction. The first step is the Fraunhofer diffraction . The incoming wave in the second step diffraction is not the plane wave, the phase of the incoming wave is the function of diffraction angle. So, the pattern is similar to Fresnel diffraction pattern where the incoming wave is spherical, or similar to the grating diffraction pattern.
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