Recent content by wmadden

Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. Glad you enjoyed the thread.

Thanks for your response to this thread; and please excuse the long delay in my replying. I agree with both your observations: Yes, this thread has grown far too quiet, and yes, a stationary object (velocity = 0) would have an infinite wavelength. Perhaps addressing your second observation...

Looks like I'm going to have to rethink my use of the HUP regarding the trajectory start point uncertainty in my original posting, and response to Patricio. Meanwhile, I'd be very interested in your thoughts on the DSI experiment, especially regarding the physical interpretation of the...

Reply to ZapperZ Thank you for your comments on my reply to Patricio. You said: No argument there – I never disputed a photon can pass through a slit narrower than its wavelength – it absolutely can. You also said, An unassailable argument, but...

Reply to Patricio Thank you for your question regarding the role of the trajectory start point uncertainty, \Delta, in my proposal. If this term applied to the quanta itself, it would indeed have the consequences you describe (introducing a spread in the momentum, energy and wavelength of...

Reply #2 to Mentz114 Happy New Year. Thank you so much for your kind comments…it’s very gratifying to know my ideas have, perhaps, provided some food for thought, as have yours. Also (just to keep me honest), I must say, while your salutation was exremely complimentary, I hold no advanced...

Reply #2 to dtfroedge Happy New Year. Thank you for your recent reply and for posting the link to your paper. I found it very interesting. A conceptually similar experiment to yours was performed by Pfleegor and Mandel back in 1967 (Pfleegor and Mandel, “Interference of Independent...

Reply to Mentz114 Thank you for raising many interesting points regarding my post. The first of these-regarding phase and coherence- are crucial to any wave based model of the double slit experiment. But please bear in mind that, for single quanta experiments, the conventional wave model...

Reply to Sweetser Thank you for reading and responding to my post, and I apologize for the lengthy delay in my replying to you. You raised many critical questions and I shall try to deal with these, though not necessarily in order. Your primary objection (and please correct me if I...

Black Hole Evaporation Hello. I found your post extremely interesting (and I am continuing to re-read it to fully understand it). A quick question, though: My knowledge of this subject is limited, but in Hawking's black hole radiation theory one consequence of BH radiation is the black hole...

Reply to DTFROEDGE Hello. Thank you for reading (and responding!) to this post. I completely agree with you that this alternative model adds nothing new to conventional QM theory, but it was never intended to do so. QM formalism, as it stands, is a supremely successful theory, and has...

An Alternative Model of the Double Slit Interference Experiment W.H. Madden November 20, 2007 ABSTRACT This post presents an alternative model of the double-slit interference (DSI) experiment. The model is based on a novel physical interpretation of the concept of the DeBroglie...