Hi all, This is a wild idea. I was following an interesting discussion at,
http://www.sciphysicsforums.com/spfbb1/index.php search for double slit. The idea here is that the particle wave duality comes from an interaction with the slit via momentum transfer. Whatever you think, it is a good discussion, and will give a lot of insight to the problem by just following the discussion. Now my problem with the suggestion is that neutron as well as photons and electrons all show this wave like pattern. But here I have a wild idea. One of my visualisations of gravity is that in free space there is a pressure in all directions that are equal and that gravity comes from a shading effect where a mass standing in the way will shield off pressure rays and cause an attraction. When you pass an atom through a slit the shielding will vary and somehow I sense that this could cause a momentum transfer that can be in quantas hence leading to the seen refraction patterns. Not sure if the effect is strong enough but taking the facts that there should be a natural explanation to the double slit experiment and that F=ma may factor out the mass dependency and leave out only the simple dependent parameters in the double slit experiment and also allow for all particle types to interact similarly and also that EM fields and photons should react to the change in the gravity field. You may think that gravity is too weak to play an effect. I'm not sure because the gradient may be very sharp as the particle hit the slit with great speed. At least it is worth a micro second or so of focus. The problem to validate or disprove my idea is that we have no working general relativity / QM theory that works. Could we design some experimental method to explore this idea in order to disprove it? Why not do a test where we try to reduce the gradient by having a massive guide that slowly introduce the slit as the beam approaches the slit object. If the effect has the same magnitude The idea would be disproved. Regards Stefan
