In article <48457419@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...

You know, I had a thought. What if electrons have no "fixed" path as we 
would think of it. I.e., their position tends to fluctuate, similar to 
what you get with the cloud of them around an atom (hint, they don't 
form shells, its just a useful analogy). Then, if the slits are wide 
enough and at a distance "equal" to the effective maximum distance of 
displacement that can happen in these fluctuations, multiple electrons 
fired in close proximity "may" find themselves in situations where their 
positions must be logically coincidence with one of the slits, and they 
"would" interfere and generate a pattern. Even a single one may do so, 
since it "could" in such a state pass through "both" at the same time, 
or near enough that similar coincident effects could cause it to pass 
through one perfectly, vanish, then reappear too close to the other, 
perturbing its path slightly, only to have its next "bounce" happen off 
center of where it "should have" gone had it passed through both 
perfectly, or missed one completely. I.e., maybe electrons actually act 
like virtual particles in a vacuum. Something makes them more "stable" 
than those particles, but their position is inherently unstable, within 
the limits of their known path, due to fluctuations similar to those 
that cause virtual particles.

This would allow a particle to both "pass through" two slits at the same 
time, and yet, *not* have done so, but only if the slits where within a 
the maximum distance in which such fluctuations would allow the electron 
to fluctuate.

The only question is then, what about diffusion? Would diffusion be 
explained by an increase in the effective diameter of possible 
fluctuations, as velocity is lost, kind of like bullets wobble more as 
their spinning slows?

Just thinking about what explanation would "fit" the data, while giving 
a better explanation that, "well, it just goes through two slots." Kind 
of begs the question, "Ok, but how?" And, it provides a plausible source 
for quantum uncertainty. If all particles are, on some level, a form of 
virtual particle, but something about their energy state keeps making 
stable from moment to moment, unlike the more common ones. Well, its a 
creepy prospect, but it might explain some things about quantum physics 
and the whole Heisenberg Uncertainty mess.

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