On Jul 10, 8:39=A0am, "Bill Miller" <billmillerkt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Bill Miller <billmillerkt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> PRL "Plasmon-Assisted Two-Slit Transmission: Young's Experiment
> >> Revisited"
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> >> Assuming that the experimental results are correct, what does this
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> >> to
> >> the whole panoply of ideas associated with Quantum mechanics?
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> > OK, so I can couple the light at the slits in a Young's-like
Experiment
> > using plasmons excited on a metal screen.
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> > But this says little about the usual Young's Experiment which uses
> > (assumes) a non-metallic screen, with no plasmon coupling.
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> > And it says even less about quantum mechanics -- I can still use QM to
> > describe either type of experiment.
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> Yep. By all means.
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> I'm not looking to throw the baby out with the bath, and if QM
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> provide =A0solutions that work, then go for it.
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> What I AM suggesting is that QM solutions are not the only ones that
fit.
> And that viewing a slit as a slot antenna seems to provide a reasonable
> (logical) alternate solution. And you don't need statistics to make it
wo=
rk!
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> Bill
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> Bill
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Great work, Bill.
I think the key point I am picking up from this discussion is: how
does the nature of the screen effect the observed results? Have you
found any recent experimental papers on the two-slit experiment using
non-conducting screens?
It seems plausible that the edges of metallic screens can set up micro
currents that are seen at a distance as antenna but insulators should
behave differently, especially under weak field conditions that cannot
induce polarization in the screen.
PS Glad to see your vision 'situation' is not holding you back.
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