Appreciation of the nature of light demands enhancement over the prevailing scientific epistemology

Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri

doi:10.1117/12.895123

28 September 2011 Appreciation of the nature of light demands enhancement over the prevailing scientific epistemology

Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri

Proceedings Volume 8121, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? IV; 81211P (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.895123
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Based on attempts to resolve the problem of various self contradictory assumptions behind the prevailing belief on single photon interference, we have analyzed the process steps behind our experimental measurements and named the process as the Interaction Process Mapping Epistemology (IPM-E). This has helped us recognize that the quantum mechanical Measurement Problem has a much universal and deeper root in nature. Our scientific theorization process suffers from a Perpetual Information Challenge (PIC), which cannot be overcome by elegant and/or sophisticated mathematical theories alone. Iterative imaginative application of IPM-E needs to be used as a metaphorical analytical continuation to fill up the missing information gaps. IPM-E has also guided us to recognize the generic NIW-principle (Non-Interaction of Waves) in the linear domain, not explicitly recognized in current books and literature. Superposition effects become manifest through light-matter interactions. Detecting dipoles gets stimulated by multiple superposed beams; it sums the simultaneous multiple stimulations into a single resultant undulation, which then guides the resultant energy exchange. The consequent transformation in the detector corresponds to observed fringes. They neither represent interference of light; nor represent selective arrival or non-arrival of photons on the detector. Photons do not possess any force of mutual interaction to generate their redistribution. Implementation of IPM-E requires us to recognize our subjective interpretation propensity with which we are burdened due to our evolutionary successes.

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Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri "Appreciation of the nature of light demands enhancement over the prevailing scientific epistemology", Proc. SPIE 8121, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? IV, 81211P (28 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.895123

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