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Diffraction Experiment Demonstrates Photon’s Path

John Hodge

Published Sep 17, 2019• 0 citations

Abstract

Wave models of light suggest the waves from a slit expand like a fan and interfere with other waves through the slit.A photon model of light with a computer simulation suggests the photons through a slit cross to the other side of centerline to reach the screen.A diffraction experiment is performed with a light filter that reduces the intensity of light on one side of a slit.This experiment demonstrates that the reduced intensity caused by the filter appears on the side of the image opposite to the side with the filter.Therefore, the crossing pattern predicted by a photon computer simulation is supported and the traditional wave models are rejected.

DOI: 10.32370/ia_2019_09_2

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