Very interesting.

 

 

I guess that's why photon torpedos are difficult to see!

Wow, thanks for posting this, Martin.

The double slit experiment always freaked me out a bit. This is a better explanation (assuming it's true) than the one we're told.

So... light isn't a wave, it's particles that act like a wave, sometimes cancelling each other out.

It'll be interesting to see where this goes.

Hook

Yep, looks interesting.

Hm, i must say these researchers are on the right track. Their still rather primitive calculations finally come a bit closer to reality. 

Of course i could easily explain them how reality works in full, but where's the fun in that...i prefer to let them find out themselves.😀

"Fascinating," thus spake Spock.

For that matter, it could be posited that for every neutrino, quark, electron, muon, neutron, etc. there could exist its 'dark' counterpart or equivalent...

I had a closer look at the original article (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.133603). It is very good work, but far from the revolution that the media claim it was. They use standard quantum physics, but in a creative way. So, they do not rewrite quantum physics, they rather confirm it. It is just that their explanation of the famous double slit experiment utilizes quantum states with a specific number of photons (particles of which light consists) rather than the usual coherent states that are often used to describe a laser beam. 

Their approach is somewhat similar to other results in the quantum theory of light. For instance, it is well known that a laser beam with unknown phase can both be described as a mostly classical incoherent wave, or as a statistical (Poissonian) distribution of states with a particular number of photons. It happens often in quantum physics that one can use two complementary descriptions that emphasize different aspects of an experiment. The new work does exactly that for the double slit experiment. 

Peter