The light passing through the slits is a beam of light from a single source. There is a stream of photons, each with an individual wave front, that each expand spherically from the point origin of the source. By the time the beam reaches the slits, the spherical wave has expanded and part of each single spherical photon wave front passes through each slit.
If the slits are not exactly aligned so that the same photon wave front reaches each slit at exactly the same time and angle, there is interference because the waves are out of phase. Out of phase waves cause the interference patterns.
Here is an interesting link that uses droplets instead of slits to produce the interference pattern.
My point in that last post was to make a correlation between the rate of expansion of the individual spherical wave fronts and the speed of light which seems obvious but it is a step toward developing the idea in the OP.
I am getting to a premise that the individual photon is actually composed of multiple waves that combine at the source to form a common wave front. If so then the individual photon that appears to be one wave could actually be synchronized multiple waves emitted simultaneously from the source.
That could explain how the energy that is imparted to the photons by the energy level of the source is the determinant of how much energy a photon carries, i.e. higher energy photons would be composed of more individual waves all emitted as continuous beams with each photon packet having the same wave front. That allows for a more fundamental component (lower level of indivisible composition) of the photon and of the source electron that is predicted by Quantum Wave Cosmology.
The electromagnetic nature of the combined wave that makes up each photon would be the same, i.e. electromagnetic radiation displays two traveling-wave vector components that propagate simultaneously. Each of the proposed multiple waves that combine in the individual photon wave front would have their own electrical field and magnetic field components imparted to the photon at the source.
In other words, what we view to be a single photon would be a group of waves emitted together from the source electron. The beam of light would be considered a continuous set of beams, all with a common wave front, where instead of a continuous stream of identical single spherical waves, there is a common wave front of multiple wave packets in each photon.
Since each individual wave expands at the same rate (the speed of light) the combined wave front of each photon would be maintained as it traversed the space between the origin and the destination and would appear as a single photon throughout the journey. The energy level of the source would be reflected by the number of multiple waves that combine in a common wave front to make up what we think of as individual photons.
Certainly as an effect of observation of the photon itself, the spherical wave is disrupted and the wave front is depleted either partially or completely depending on how much of the photon's energy is absorbed by the disruption.
If the slits are not exactly aligned so that the same photon wave front reaches each slit at exactly the same time and angle, there is interference because the waves are out of phase. Out of phase waves cause the interference patterns.
Here is an interesting link that uses droplets instead of slits to produce the interference pattern.
My point in that last post was to make a correlation between the rate of expansion of the individual spherical wave fronts and the speed of light which seems obvious but it is a step toward developing the idea in the OP.
I am getting to a premise that the individual photon is actually composed of multiple waves that combine at the source to form a common wave front. If so then the individual photon that appears to be one wave could actually be synchronized multiple waves emitted simultaneously from the source.
That could explain how the energy that is imparted to the photons by the energy level of the source is the determinant of how much energy a photon carries, i.e. higher energy photons would be composed of more individual waves all emitted as continuous beams with each photon packet having the same wave front. That allows for a more fundamental component (lower level of indivisible composition) of the photon and of the source electron that is predicted by Quantum Wave Cosmology.
The electromagnetic nature of the combined wave that makes up each photon would be the same, i.e. electromagnetic radiation displays two traveling-wave vector components that propagate simultaneously. Each of the proposed multiple waves that combine in the individual photon wave front would have their own electrical field and magnetic field components imparted to the photon at the source.
In other words, what we view to be a single photon would be a group of waves emitted together from the source electron. The beam of light would be considered a continuous set of beams, all with a common wave front, where instead of a continuous stream of identical single spherical waves, there is a common wave front of multiple wave packets in each photon.
Since each individual wave expands at the same rate (the speed of light) the combined wave front of each photon would be maintained as it traversed the space between the origin and the destination and would appear as a single photon throughout the journey. The energy level of the source would be reflected by the number of multiple waves that combine in a common wave front to make up what we think of as individual photons.
Certainly as an effect of observation of the photon itself, the spherical wave is disrupted and the wave front is depleted either partially or completely depending on how much of the photon's energy is absorbed by the disruption.
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