Super position? or super assumption?

[Shinns]

Hello everyone, after examining the double slit experiment and pondering for several days, I came to the conclusion that the notion of superpositions is a bit of a "leap of faith."

"Evidence" for superpositions is said to be the double slit experiment, but could the Idea of superpositions be a false conclusion?



Now that i have cast my doubt on superpositions, it's only fair that i provide an alternative explanation; aether displacement.

Now i know Aether theories are kind of "fringe" but in all fairness, not nearly as many resources have gone into the study of AT compared to QT.

Aether theory seems to account for the particles without superposition.


The idea is basically that the particle's momentum creates ripples or waves in the aether, and while these "aether waves" go through both slits, the particle only goes through one or the other. The particle then "rides" the interference pattern created by the coherent aether wave patterns. When the particles are examined, it disturbs the coherence of the aether waves.


I'm not saying this theory is correct, but it seems to account for the phenomenon much more intuitively than superposition theory.

 

[ZapperZ]

Then you need to find an explanation for bonding-antibonding phenomenon in chemistry, the existence of coherence gap in the SQUID experiments of Delft/Stony Brook, a slew of Bell-type experiments, etc.. etc.

Zz.

 

[BruceW]

Shinns, there are interpretations of QM similar to yours. They say that the particle actually does go through one slit, and the wavefunction guides the motion of the particle. But these theories are much worse than the standard interpretation.
As one example, think of a single electron (in an s shell) in an atom. In standard interpretation, the electron is a superposition of many position states. But in your theory, the electron would have to be at a particular position. But if the electron was in a particular position, then a dipole electric field would be created. But experimentally, no dipole electric field is observed. So the electron cannot have one particular position.