Monday, 22 January 2024

One Photon Interference explained as a process over a period of time

In the Two slit experiment a single photon can form an interference pattern. Over a ‘period of time’, individual photons form a pattern of straight lines.

 

To do this the photon has to go through both slits at the same time.

 

  This is possible because the electromagnetic field itself is not quantized and light as a wave can go through both slits at the same time.

 

As waves, it can then form constructive and destructive interference.

 

The energy transfer processes to and from the field is quantized with the absorption and emission of photon energy.

 

In the reference frame of the experiment, this can be seen with the interference pattern forming out of a random statistical process photon by photon.

 

In this theory this represents a universal process, we always have a probabilistic uncertain future coming into existence with the exchange of photon energy.

 

The wave particle duality of light and matter in the form of electrons is forming a blank canvas that we, as atoms, can interact with forming a future relative to our actions.

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