What do we know?

We know that the single photon is able to go through both slits in Young’s Double slit Experiment. You may recall that we previously discussed Young’s experiment. We know the truth of the previous statement because, if a particle receiver is placed behind the lens and the double slit, then a pattern suggestive of a probability distribution is obtained, that is to say dots of  light in a pattern. If it is a receiver that recognizes a diffraction pattern, the type created by waves, then we obtain a pattern of dark and light lines, confirming the wave nature of light. If somehow we have receivers that can record a combination of these, then we see both. We, therefore, know that what we find is determined by what we look for. With a single photon we are able to see a pattern of dots that essentially mimic the dark and light pattern that is created with the type of receiver that is able to record the dark and light slit lines.

We can look at this the way the famous lecturer Richard Feyman did. We can say light is light and we can say we really do not know what it is exactly. It would follow then that we are unable to know what it is beyond being able to treat it as the sum of all probabilities distributed such that one may find the position of a particle. Implicit is the belief that there is such a thing as a particle. This is frequently called the “realist” view.

This is a modification of the classic view that one can write an equation to represent each particle. This is referred to as a quantum wave function. Since this has no physical state we might speculate it exists in some imaginary space and when triggered by observation it became an observable object or event. These objects or events then would interact together in physicality.

There is another way to look at this. The other way is to see the slits and the material in which the slits are created, themselves, and the photon as well all as separate quantum wave functions (qwiffs for short). These quantum wave functions interact together and provide new quantum wave functions different from the previous qwiffs. These now generate new patterns which are observed on the other side of the double slits. Thus the single qwiff of the photon is now able to produce, after interaction with qwiffs of the slits and material, more than one qwiff on the other side of the slits. This allows us to perceive the single photon going through both slits simultaneously.

In this interpretation the particle itself is a manifestation of the qwiff and the manifestation is never actualized until it is acted upon by the state of observation. At the heart of this, a “quantum consciousness” is required to “cohere” the particles and events from the qwiff state.

If qwiffs are required to generate manifestation, or to set conditions for the “coherence” of objects and events there has to be a processor to generate “coherence”. This processor would be equivalent to a quantum computer or quantum consciousness. This quantum computer must make use of the quantum entanglement that is known to exist. If all particles and events in existence behave as if they originate in a singularity, that is to say in less mathematical language a single point, then by definition they will behave as if they are entangled. This we have observed, even as we have observed the effects of further entanglement when particles interact. This is all consistent with the particles and events being qwiffs.

If they are qwiffs, then in order to have a coherent state and be manifested, they are subject to ‘processing’. In thinking about these qwiffs, it is important to remember that for each qwiff that materializes or “coheres”, there is a family of qwiffs that don’t. Each qwiff would represent a different possible state for the particle?object and a different potential outcome for the event.

In this way each qwiff might be thought of as a ghost state, in a ghost space where all possibilities exist.  Each qwiff would then be a non-localized probability for all intents and purposes a possibility. As the qwiff localizes into a probability in actual space it can then be found.