Quantum Theory of Gravity - "QTG"

16. The  Double  Slit  Experiment in  QTG.

                The traditional double slit experiment has the chief aim of demonstrating the wave nature of matter. The uncertainty as to which slit the particle passes through is resolved mathematically by Quantum Mechanics through a mysterious combination weighted with complex numbers, by means of which it is accepted that the particle passes simultaneously through both slits. This idea does not sit comfortably with our common sense. Our physical intuition suggests that something is conspiring against reality.

                Just as Quantum Mechanics resolves this problem with its Uncertainty Principle, so the Quantum Theory of Gravity resolves it through the Temporal Uncertainty Principle. It has been shown experimentally that the particle collapses at a specific location, passing through just one of the slits. We will see how this choice is conditioned by space-time.

                If we imagine each slit as representing an observation system, as seen in chapter 4, each observation system will experience a different temporal wave, as can be seen in figure 14. The interference patterns observed under the wave theory exist in an analogous form for the temporal waves, with the maxima occurring when both waves reach the shield in phase (they must be in phase, because only in this way do they form aspects of the same particle), while the minima occur when the temporal waves are most out of phase. This can be seen in greater detail in figure 15.

                If we construct an experiment using a coherent source such as a laser, we will see more defined interference patterns because the temporal waves will all be in phase and of the same amplitude and wavelength, the particles will always collapse at the same point and we will see lines (or points in two dimensions) instead of the curve shown in figure 15. Imagine, then, a laser that generates a controlled emission of particles – a source emitting one particle at a time at controlled intervals – so that we can follow the formation of the interference patterns in a gradual manner. We will find that, for each particle, well-defined points exist for the collapse, always at the locations – the maxima – established by the wave theory.

                We can now follow how the Quantum Theory of Gravity explains the formation of the principal maximum in the interference pattern. Supposing the atom to be aligned with the experimental axis, a photon released from the electron cloud at point 1 (imagining the atom as a sphere in three dimensions) is the same distance from each of the two slits. In this case, the waves reach the shield exactly in phase and exactly at the center of the first maximum. Following the same logic for the other points, we find the interference pattern as presented. The formation of other maxima and minima obeys the same rule: the collapse always occurs where the waves observed by the two observation systems reach the shield in phase, and the maxima occur where the waves are out of phase by one or more full wavelengths. 

                Looking from observation system C or the shield in figure 14 or 15, what passes through both slits simultaneously is the information regarding the particle’s temporal situation, which simultaneously identifies the wave of the particle from the source atom through both slits. The particle’s temporal information is defined by observation systems A and B, and if more slits were present, all would necessarily be involved in the identification.

                As seen in chapter 8, gravity (and consequently time) begins to exist as of the existence of the second atom, being a result of the influence of one atom on the other. In the case of this experiment, all of the atoms in the location contribute to the formation of a local time reference: when the particle is part of an atom, it will participate directly in the definition of the local time reference, just as it is responsible for its part in the generation of gravity.

                Just as Quantum Mechanics and its quantum numbers establishes that these particles within atoms occupy well-defined orbits, so we can imagine that all of the space-time around or between these atoms is somehow quantized, like a three-dimensional grid modulated by gravity-time, a granulated space through which these particles move when not linked to an atom.

                It is known that matter exchanges energy as if it were a particle and propagates it as if it were a wave. Any particle not connected to an atom will oscillate within this granulated space around its own local time reference. Its particle nature will appear to collapse while its wave nature will identify temporally with another wave – in this case, with a particle within an atom – perfectly in phase with its temporal oscillation.

                We have seen that, in superconductors, the mirroring electron that balances the Cooper pair with respect to the present is not always physically close. Here we have a similar but inverted situation,: the identification of the site of the collapse occurs where the waves are in phase. Both particles must be in the same time dimension, because – having exactly the same oscillation with respect to the local time reference – they are constantly and instantaneously identified as if they were in the same dimension, in the same way that we identify ourselves by what is around us. There will be a great variety of options, but they must be within the locations determined by the wave theory. It is for this reason that the location of the particle collapse is determined at the source or point of release, which will result in a target in the same time dimension and offering the best geometrical conditions. In this way, the interaction will involve the least possible energy, which, as seen in chapter 3, is the natural condition for the stability of any physical system or interaction.

                It has been shown experimentally that quantum information can be transmitted at velocities greater than that of light. This is now easier to accept, if we take into account that particles can be out of phase with the present.

                We have shown that there is a mysterious instantaneous complicity in the existence of all of the matter in the universe. One particle, such as a photon, released in any part of the cosmos, travels in all directions simultaneously, but – independently of how many billions of years passed in its motion – will collapse only in a certain location defined at its release.