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The IN/OUT Wave Mechanism: A Non-Local Foundation for Quantum Behavior and the Double-Slit Experiment

Gui Furne Gouveia

Published Sep 25, 2025• 0 citations
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This work extends the framework developed in "The Vibrational Fabric of Spacetime" [1] by detailing the IN/OUT wave mechanism. It provides a detailed, step-by-step explanation of how particles, as self-trapped wave packets, interact non-locally with their environment. We focus on applying this mechanism to the double-slit experiment, offering a mechanical and intuitive explanation for quantum interference and the role of the environment. The principle of "source subtraction" is introduced as a fundamental geometric method for determining allowed particle paths. This exposition demonstrates how quantum behavior emerges from the inherently extended nature of particles defined by their wave-mediated connection to the universe.

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10.20944/preprints202509.2122.v1

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The double-slit experiment encompasses the deepest mysteries of Quantum Mechanics. Here, we offer a physically intuitive explanation of this experiment based on insight from a recently described statistical model for the CHSH-Bell and Franson experiments. Accordingly, while each particle follows a single path as it goes through the device and into a detector, it also modifies the physical properties of the vacuum around it by spontaneously breaking its group of symmetries. The well-known pattern of interference fringes that appears in statistical analysis of long sequences of repetitions is then understood as the result of the self-interaction of the propagating particles with the polarized vacuum they create around themselves. A novel experimental setup aimed to test the offered explanation is proposed.
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The renowned double-slit experiment encompasses some of the deepest mysteries of QuantumMechanics: single particles behave as corpuscles, but their statistical behavior corresponds to de-localized wave packets. Here, we offer a novel, physically intuitive explanation for this dual behavior.The proposal is based on insight gained from a recently described statistical description of anotherrenowned experiment: the CHSH-Bell experiment. According to the proposed explanation, while each particle follows a single path as it goes through the double-slit and into the detector, it alsomodifies the physical properties of the vacuum around it by spontaneously breaking its symmetries.The well-known pattern of interference fringes that appears in statistical analysis of long sequencesof repetitions is then understood as the result of the self-interaction of the propagating particleswith the polarized vacuum they create around themselves. An experimental setup aimed to test theoffered explanation is suggested.
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