The Shadow of Light: Further Experimental Evidences

Abstract

We report the results of a double-slit-like experiment in the infrared range, which confirm those of a previous one by evidencing an anomalous behaviour of photon systems under particular (energy and space) constraints. These outcomes (independently confirmed by crossing photon beam experiments in both the optical and the microwave range) apparently rule out the Copenhagen interpretation of the quantum wave, i.e. the probability wave, by admitting an interpretation in terms of the Einstein-de Broglie-Bohm hollow wave for photons. Moreover, this second experiment further supports the interpretation of the hollow wave as a deformation of the Minkowski spacetime geometry.

The Shadow of Light: Lorentz Invariance and Complementarity Principle in Anomalous Photon Behavior

“…Let us denote by ∆ V the difference of the total averages, corresponding to the measurements on each detector for the two states of the sources. The experimental results are reported in Table 1 [2]. The differences between the total means of the measurement on each detector for the two possible states of the sources allow us to draw the following conclusions.…”

“…In the optical experiment carried out at INOA-CNR [1,2,8], the wavelength of the used infrared laser beams was 10600 nm, namely one order of magnitude higher than the wavelength of the sources (LEDs) used in our experiments (850 nm). Let us also remark that the energy of the photons of our two experiments was 10 4 times higher than that of the photons in the Cologne and Florence experiments [4,5,7], and 10 times higher than that of the INOA-CNR experiment [8].…”

“…The experimental set-up was essentially the same, but with a right-to-left inversion along the bigger side of the box and with three detectors of a different type from that used in the first investigation. In this way, it was possible to study how the phenomenon changes under a spatial parity inversion 2 and for a different type of detectors.…”

“…The measurements were carried out for a relatively long lapse of time, that is, 12 minutes. This allowed one to perform a statistical test on the averaged results [2,8]. The signal statistics provided a significant variation in the mean values obtained with or without beam crossing.…”

“…It has been our target to study and pinpoint the possible effects of such a shadow of light in different experimental conditions. Thus, in order to detect the effects of hollow waves and hence test our hypothesis, we carried out two optical experiments [1,2], of the double-slit type, designed according to the energy and space threshold behaviour of the LLI breakdown. The experimental set-up, measurement procedure and results of these two experiments are illustrated in Subsect.2.1.…”