Friday, May 23, 2025

THE PLIGHT OF PHYSICS

 

THE PLIGHT OF PHYSICS

Particle Physics ceased being a scientific discipline in the early years of quantum mechanics.

This occurred gradually as, unable to explain their observations in connected, logical and visualizable terms using natural language, physicists began to speculate upon and accept causal mechanisms beyond our ability to understand.

Speculation about possible causes of observed phenomena is of course a valid method of investigation if clearly understood for its limitations.

The fundamental problem in Quantum Mechanics arose however when invalid assumptions led to a misinterpretation of experimental results, an interpretation which was accepted as true and used to form the basis for the development of evolving theories.

WAVES

Invalid assumptions:

Light propagates as a wave.

Light waves interact.

Interacting light waves add in amplitude in an algebraic manner.

The phase relationship between interacting light waves determines the amplitude of the resultant wave and thus the intensity of illumination on the screen.

Misinterpretation:

The observed results of the Double Slit Experiment were interpreted as being formed by the interaction of light waves, thus endorsing the wave theory of light.

Apparent anomalies arising from variations to the double slit experiment were interpreted as caused by light waves interfering with themselves through peculiar (and inexplicable) time events.

PARTICLES

An inability to conceive mechanisms by which particulate light could produce the observed outcome of the double slit experiment served to relegate the idea to a fallback position referred to only in instances where wave theory proved inadequate.

NOTE:

Photons, whether perceived as waves or particles, do not routinely interact.

If photons did indeed interact as perceived in the double slit experiment, such interaction would produce waves combining the energy of the waves involved.

Combining wave energy in such a manner would, with in-phase waves for example, produce a resultant wave of double the FREQUENCY, not double the AMPLITUDE of the initial waves.

If this actually occurred for waves of the lowest frequency able to be perceived by the human eye the resultant double frequency wave would be on the upper limit of our visual spectrum, with results for higher input frequencies being invisible to us.

Invalidly conflating conceived light waves with waves in material things such as water waves and sound waves in which matter is physically redistributed by mechanical energy passing through the material involved, was a serious error from which science has not yet recovered.

Perhaps there will be no recovery from this error. Those who control the dialogue are unlikely to destroy the edifice of which they are the masters.

If all of this makes sense to you and you would like further detail it can be found in my blogger posts at:

photon-interactions.blogspot.com/2024/10/light-

and: photon-interactions.blogspot.com/2019/08/what-i

and: photon-interactions.blogspot.com/2024/10/nobody 

with an archived copy of the website found here: photon-interactions.blogspot.com/2024/11/hereti

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