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Can you provide more than 4 examples of an electron double slit experiment? I'm under the impression that there have actually been very few https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=412055

I think people wouldn't try so hard to flee the country to avoid child support if the amounts to be paid were truly reasonable (I know everyone on the other side of the debate already thinks it is) and also if there were better ways for men to control whether or not they have kids. It's too...

I think F = -qE is just an equation. It doesn't show that the field is physically there. It could be that the field is just an abstraction of the fact that an object at that distance would experience a certain force. However, light, a propogating EM wave, seems to show that fields exist apart...

I'm not really being coy, I've already said what my suspicions are. My suspicion is that there might something more that can be learned from double-slit type experiments, some new property or behavior that we don't currently know. On the other hand, there might not be. However, it is not a...

It's all explained in the paper unusualname linked to above in this forum. I think it would be best if anyone interested read it for themselves rather than me giving my interpretation on something that's easily available to all. I'd like to hear what you think of it when you have the time.

Apparently hard x rays are absorbed rather well by the Earth's atmosphere, so I'm not sure why the 1977 paper does not think the heliosphere would have a similar effect. Can someone help clarify?

Hmm, apparently this paper http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/Brecher-K-1977.pdf answers that question. It says high energy x-rays are less likely to be disturbed... any thoughts? Would high energy x-rays be able to pass through the heliosphere unaffected?

What's the likelihood of light striking some interstellar gas and being absorbed, then re-emitted, and the re-emitted light actually being the light we see rather than the original light from the source? Also, what about the likelihood of reemission after passing through the heliosphere...

Are forces due to fields or are fields an abstraction of forces? Do electromagnetic waves exist apart from as an abstract description of changing fields, which are in turn abstract descriptions of changing forces (or potential of force if there was an object for force to be applied to)?

Very_curious, that's similar to the experiment linked to by unusualname above. It appears to show that the current view of the electron is incorrect.

Cesiumfrog, I don't mean to be trolling. Actually "unusualname" posted a link to an experiment where several parameters were varied and it shows some problems with the current view of the electron, so my suspicions look to have been correct. However, I'll wait to see what comes of this paper...

Yeah, what crazy person would ever want to repeat an experiment? Maybe to make some changes and learn something new that wasn't revealed by previous experiments. Nahh, that'd be too scientific. Clearly early experiments showed that feathers fall slower than lead, so why would we want to do...

Apologies in advance for the redundant "I know"s below. I just want to make a point that I didn't ask for the following information, as I already have it, and that the answer I got did not answer my original question. I am noticing a habit on this forum (from several other threads) of...

I've been reading some papers about electron double slit experiments, including the one by Jonsson which seems to be the most detailed and well written so far, but I've only been able to find about five papers total. Jonsson was one, then a 1989 single-electron double slit experiment, and a few...

Start your own university. It's really not that hard, and with the prices like UoP charges, it's not like you are required to keep your profit margins at Walmart levels. There's plenty of room for competition in the market. Do you have your masters or PhD? If so, talk to me about this...