Abstract
The provided content explores a unified field model to explain the results of the double-slit experiment, suggesting that traditional particle concepts are inadequate. It describes electrons as centres of spherical electromagnetic vortices, positing that gravity and photons are manifestations of this field structure. The model highlights the dynamic and self-organising nature of electromagnetic fields and their influence on experimental outcomes. The author argues that this perspective simplifies complexities and aligns better with observed phenomena than existing quantum theories.
A complete field solution
An explanation for the results of any experiment is clearly dependent upon an underlying physical theoretical model.
The results of the double slit experiment are surprising and inexplicable from the perspective of classical physics and so a better model must be looked for.
We will examine the experiment from the perspective of a complete ‘field’ model of the kind sought after by Einstein and actually described in some detail by Konstantin Meyl in his book Scalar Waves.
In this model, there are no distinct entities such as particles, matter, energy, gravity, or even ‘space’. Instead, the entire cosmos is described in terms of a single set of vector differential equations which determine the behaviour of a field-like structure, very similar to the electromagnetic field of classical physics.
We need to understand some properties of this field before examining the double-slit set up.
Electrons
An electron, in Meyl’s model of reality, is the centre of a single spherical electromagnetic field vortex. The electric component of the field forms a spinning sphere and the magnetic component forms a dipole.
These fields taken together create a long range attraction which is interpreted as a gravitational field, and a short range repulsion which is interpreted as ‘contact’.
The field surrounding the electron extends, conceptually at least, to infinity, and spirals inwards towards the centre with constant movement. Meyl has stated that the electron is stabilised by the entire weight of the Universe pushing inwards. The impression of solid matter is created.
The gravitational field
The gravitational field at the surface of the Earth is electromagnetic in nature and consists of the totality of all of the electromagnetic fields of all of the electrons etc. in the planet. (Meyl, Electric Universe).
It has both vertical and horizontal components but only the vertical component has accelerative properties.
The field is dynamic, with constant movement, and will have a fine grained structure at the scale of an atom.
Even crude measurements of the field show it to vary slightly on a daily basis and in a cyclic fashion on longer timescales.
The photon
A photon is usually described as a point-like particle with no height, width, length or volume. They are said to have an infinite energy density and to be set apart from normal space and time. It is surely impossible to prove the existence of such a thing?
A recent paper somehow measures a photon in the shape of a ring vortex, meaning it now has a finite shape and volume and very obviously contains a specific amount of ‘energy’ by virtue of its innate field movement and size.
Meyl has posited a photon as a pair of leap-frogging ring vortices. These will likely give the impression of ‘frequency’ when measured with common techniques. Such frequency may well be related to the internal energy of the vortices in a very obvious way.
Features of the field
Vortex shedding
Flow in gases and fluids has a strong tendency to form structured vortex streams as seen below.
The phenomena can be triggered by almost any obstacle in the stream such as a slit, rock, mountain etc.
Such patterns invariably display a high degree of regularity, and restrictive measurement techniques will be unable to distinguish these from waves or particles, depending upon the specifics of the instrument.
Now if the individual molecules of any gas or fluid are really just electromagnetic vortices, then we have some justification for claiming that patterns displayed in gases and fluids are also likely to be seen in electromagnetic fields.
The vortices shown clearly display characteristics of both waves and particles. Moreover, the streams have a malleable nature and can deform to fit through small apertures. They have a ‘directionality’ of themselves but will also adapt their flow to underlying variations in the larger field.
Spontaneous geometric organisation of the field
If a nafion tube is placed in a bath of water, a spontaneous vortex flow is created (see diagram below). It is argued here: Pollack’s water engine that this is a result of the almost instantaneous self-organisation of an electromagnetic field which then provides a template for the water flow.
Incoming infrared photons are absorbed and the spare energy somehow transmuted to the kinetic flow of water molecules; the flow speeds up. This defies reasonable explanation in classical physics, but if the photon is already imagined as a ring vortex of electromagnetic energy, then all that needs to happen is that it be given a sense of direction and the problem is half solved.
The electromagnetic field seems to organise itself around the physical materials of the experimental set up.
The electron gun
Descriptions of the functioning of an electron gun are not credible: negatively charged particles concentrate at the end of the gun, leap off and are focused by magnets to flow either in a parallel stream or in a converging stream for electron microscopes.
The problem of course is that all the electrons are the same polarity which means that they are never going to assemble closely together, never travel in a parallel stream and are never going to converge in a controlled manner.
So what is the output of an electron gun?
Nobody knows, but it is likely to be some energetic field structure which, by the laws of electromagnetism, forms some sort of vortex structure. Very likely a string of field vortices as shown above or something similar.
Shown below is another possibility, a ‘Birkeland’ current. Something like this may well be output by a gun or laser and it may well happen that as it travels between the slits, it deforms into another semi-stable vortex formation, maybe even an electron.
Filaments and energy transfer
The nature of a dynamic electromagnetic field is such that it is predisposed to form filament type structures similar to the coaxial currents above or of the simpler helical constructs seen in the atmosphere or in space.
Shown below are sample filaments measured at the surface of the sun.
The double slit experiment
The double slit setup is shown below.
The whole experiment takes place within the gravitational field of the Earth, which is now a dynamic electromagnetic field with fine grained structure at the scale of an atom.
The physical parts of the setup have their own field structure and this doubtless has an effect upon the ambient gravitational field in the same way that the nafion tube had an effect upon the field in the water bath; a stable conformation arises even before any energy is input into the system. Field effects propagate at the speed of light and are almost instantaneous at this scale.
A laser or electron gun now introduces some energy into this field at point ‘a’, above. The energy is in the form of an energetic electromagnetic vortex whichever way we look at it.
This vortex now interacts with the ambient field in accordance with the laws of electrodynamic field physics, whatever they may be. We do not ever have particles travelling through a neutral or empty ‘vacuum’, but field vortices interacting with a similar complex and energetic field.
The field immediately responds and produces changes in the ambient field at ‘a’ which then propagate at the speed of light throughout the whole set up.
These changes impact the double slits and pass through them, emerging as some sort of vortex stream into the right hand side of the setup.
The field adjust as a unified whole, with vortices from ‘b’ connecting, at their outer edges, with vortices from ‘c’. This happens at the speed of light and a coherent electromagnetic field fills the chamber, where ‘coherent’ means: ‘in accordance with the laws of electromagnetism‘.
This is strikingly different to the formulation in classical physics where particles move through empty space with negligible effect upon each other. Instead, every individual event remains part of a whole and effects propagate throughout the setup at the speed of light.
The diffraction pattern
Field disturbances travel through the slits ‘b’ and ‘c’, above and propagate towards the photographic plate. The plate itself has its own electro-gravitational field with atom sized fluctuations. Each atom is of the form of an electromagnetic vortex with a tendency to accumulate energy and information.
We may speculate that near the surface of the plate, the field adopts the form of multiple filaments as were seen at the surface of the sun (above). Energy is guided along a filament and accumulates at a molecule, thereby causing the chemical reaction required to register a ‘photon’ at the plate.
Energy is discharged and the filament either disappears or switches to another location as with a plasma globe. The filaments themselves form something of a wave-like structure and it is the sum of such structures that gives rise to the diffraction pattern.
A quantum slit ‘which way’ detector
If a physical path detector is placed in the setup then the geometry of the field is changed even before any electrons or photons have been fired. New possibilities arise for the experiment as a whole. The detector may have a small effect or a large one.
Illustrations of a particle travelling either through one slit or another are now clearly misleading. A vortex may channel most of its energy through one slit but still a significant amount through the other. The presence of a detector may alter this behaviour in unpredictable ways.
This has nothing to do with conscious observers but is entirely caused by the laws of electrodynamics.
Single slit diffraction
A single slit can cause a very similar pattern to a double slit.
This is not so surprising with the single field solution described above. Vortices are shed from both edges of the slit and begin interfering with each other before registering at the plate.
Physicists tend not to talk about this one so much.
Spooky action at a distance
The formulation of the solution in terms of quantum wave functions invariably leads to some form of instantaneous action at a distance, backwards time travel, or statements to the effect that particles somehow know when they are about to be measured.
Both these ideas sound like complete desperation to shore up a failed model and both should act as a major red flag.
One idea to consider back on planet Earth is that as soon as a slit is blocked, the field within the chamber takes on a new stable conformation which will have the tendency to form a ‘conduit’ of some sort which guides the energy towards and through the remaining open slit.
Energy emerges at ‘a’ in the diagram and immediately starts on its way towards slit ‘b’, say, guided by local forces only. The ‘particle’ appears to have foresight or appears to be making some sort of decision for itself but nothing of the sort is happening. Instead, invisible physical forces are acting as a guide for the moving energy structure whatever it may be.
Summary
The concept of an electromagnetic field has been augmented only slightly with features already observed in nature, to form the basis for a novel solution for the double-slit experiment.
If the features of such a field are accepted as a possibility then the results of the experiment seem unremarkable and hardly in need of further explanation.
This solution may seem far-fetched to some but is surely pedestrian compared to the solutions offered by quantum theory. No really new physics or conceptual ‘exotica’ have been proposed apart from some features of an electromagnetic field whose presence is already indicated by various natural phenomena and laboratory experiments.