The Double Slit Experiment

The double slit experiment has been used as "proof" that not just photons, but all things have wave-like properties. The larger an object is, the smaller is its frequency. Many things are so large that their wavelength cannot be detected. However, according to the believers in this theory, all things have a wavelength.

Many double slit experiments have been performed, and every one of them seems to verify the theory that all things have wavelength. Red photons have the longest wavelength. Blue photons have shorter wavelengths. Electrons have shorter wavelengths still. Atomic nuclei have wavelengths too, and even molecules have been measured to have wavelengths, extremely small, but detectable.

However, particles in the Velcro model do not have wavelength. Seen from the perspective of the Velcro model, the double slit experiment does not measure relative wavelength, but relative size.

We know for a fact that molecules are bigger than atomic nuclei. We also know that atomic nuclei are bigger than electrons, and that electrons are bigger than photons. In this perspective, there's nothing mysterious about the double slit experiment. Quite obviously, molecules are larger than photons.

But the mystery of the double slit experiment is not really about wavelength. The big mystery surrounding the double slit experiment is the fact that particles demonstrably interfere with themselves on their way to the detector.

The double slit experiment is fairly easy to set up. All that is needed is a light source and a barrier to particles with two narrowly separated slits in it.

Double slit experiment set-up.

When particles pass through the barrier, they go through either one or the other slit.

On reaching the wall at the far end, an interference pattern is always registered, provided enough photons have been sent through the barrier. The exact shape of the interference pattern depends only on the size (wavelength) of the particles, and the spacing between the slits.

What baffles people is the fact that this interference pattern appears even if only one particle is let through the slits at a time.

However, the idea that there are no other particles present in the laboratory when a single particle is sent through the double slit barrier is incorrect. There is no such thing as empty space in the Velcro model. Space is packed with zero-point particles.

Since zero-point particles come in two types, namely neutrinos and zero-point photons, they are more than a little likely to resonate with each other. Space is not only packed with zero-point particles, these particles form a standing wave in which certain regions of space are more likely to contain a zero-point photon than other regions.

When a relatively larger particle is sent through space, it bobs along on the standing wave. This creates a disturbance in the standing wave that propagates through space.

This disturbance passes through the two slits like a wave in a lake, and the relatively larger particle moves like a boat through these waves.

The larger the particle, the less it is affected by the waves. However, all particles will be affected, and this is what the detector at the far end of the laboratory set-up is registering.

Photon bobbing along on a disturbed standing wave of zero-point particles.

What is detected by the receiver is not wavelengths of particles, but the size of particles relative to the standing wave of zero-point particles.