Has anyone ever (or does anyone know of anyone who has ever) performed the double-slit experiment inside a well-shielded Casimir cavity? I think that'd uncover some interesting aspects of what we consider to be the wave-particle duality of light (and/or electrons).
I contend that electrons are particles (they have a rest mass, after all, and it's now been proven that they reject QVZPE field modes longer than their radius, as all matter does, which is why those out-of-phase QVZPE field modes impinge upon the electron in the first place, and part of the reason a magnet's magnetic field is coherent (a "field" (for want of a better descriptive term) of electrons all rejecting out-of-phase QVZPE field modes longer than the Compton radius (acting much like a Casimir cavity) damps electron precession as a whole in the bulk of the magnet, allowing the Larmor radiation thrown off by those electrons to be more coherent and thus perceivable at the pole faces)... they're just so small and light that the QVZPE field modes that destructively interfere with its orbit about a nucleus make it appear as though it were of a similar nature to those QVZPE field mode electromagnetic waves that are impinging upon it. The electron wants to make a nice circular orbit about the nucleus, but the destructively-interfering QVZPE field modes toss it about, necessitating that we use quantum superposition to estimate its most likely position simply because we have no equipment that can zoom in enough and which has a fast enough data acquisition speed to accurately determine its position.
For free electrons, I further contend that what we're seeing in the double-slit experiment with electrons is a manifestation of the electron being impinged upon by those destructively-interfering QVZPE field modes. We're not seeing the electron as a wave, we're seeing the QVZPE field modes (ie: electromagnetic waves) impinging upon the electron such that it's "tossed" upon those QVZPE electromagnetic waves. So we're actually seeing the anisotropy of the QVZPE field, said anisotropy caused by the electron passing through the QVZPE field on its way to the target and interacting with the QVZPE field... it's kind of like that "random walk" game called Plinko at carnivals (you put a disc in at the top, it bounces off of pegs on its way down, you get points or a prize if it lands in a certain spot)... except replace the disc with the electron, and the pegs with the QVZPE field modes impinging upon that electron.
By conducting the double-slit experiment in a Casimir cavity such that the QVZPE wave modes that predominantly destructively interfere with electrons is damped, we might be able to determine once and for all whether an electron is a particle or a wave.
Interestingly, Einstein hinted at this:
http://www.bourbaphy.fr/grangier.pdfQuote
I contend that electrons are particles (they have a rest mass, after all, and it's now been proven that they reject QVZPE field modes longer than their radius, as all matter does, which is why those out-of-phase QVZPE field modes impinge upon the electron in the first place, and part of the reason a magnet's magnetic field is coherent (a "field" (for want of a better descriptive term) of electrons all rejecting out-of-phase QVZPE field modes longer than the Compton radius (acting much like a Casimir cavity) damps electron precession as a whole in the bulk of the magnet, allowing the Larmor radiation thrown off by those electrons to be more coherent and thus perceivable at the pole faces)... they're just so small and light that the QVZPE field modes that destructively interfere with its orbit about a nucleus make it appear as though it were of a similar nature to those QVZPE field mode electromagnetic waves that are impinging upon it. The electron wants to make a nice circular orbit about the nucleus, but the destructively-interfering QVZPE field modes toss it about, necessitating that we use quantum superposition to estimate its most likely position simply because we have no equipment that can zoom in enough and which has a fast enough data acquisition speed to accurately determine its position.
For free electrons, I further contend that what we're seeing in the double-slit experiment with electrons is a manifestation of the electron being impinged upon by those destructively-interfering QVZPE field modes. We're not seeing the electron as a wave, we're seeing the QVZPE field modes (ie: electromagnetic waves) impinging upon the electron such that it's "tossed" upon those QVZPE electromagnetic waves. So we're actually seeing the anisotropy of the QVZPE field, said anisotropy caused by the electron passing through the QVZPE field on its way to the target and interacting with the QVZPE field... it's kind of like that "random walk" game called Plinko at carnivals (you put a disc in at the top, it bounces off of pegs on its way down, you get points or a prize if it lands in a certain spot)... except replace the disc with the electron, and the pegs with the QVZPE field modes impinging upon that electron.
By conducting the double-slit experiment in a Casimir cavity such that the QVZPE wave modes that predominantly destructively interfere with electrons is damped, we might be able to determine once and for all whether an electron is a particle or a wave.
Interestingly, Einstein hinted at this:
http://www.bourbaphy.fr/grangier.pdf
Interestingly again, he goes even further in the 1909 conference (as well as in another article [3] published also in 1909), and identifies two basic contributions to the fluctuations of radiation: one is a “particle-like” contribution, that we would call now shot-noise, and the other one is a “wavelike” contribution, which is due to random interferences, and that we would call now speckle-like fluctuations, or the Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect.