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I hesitated to create a trivia section (a dubious practice at best) for the single item about Tom Lehrer's show "The Physical Revue".
And still more sadly, reviewing the first 100 of "about 600" Google hits on

"Physical Review" Playboy

offered no instances of them in the same sentence. I had hoped for evidence that the clever bit about "reading physical review" meaning looking at the "pictorial" articles in Playboy was more than a passing amusement between two grad students, or within one department. Anyone?
--Jerzy•t 15:06, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Physical Review X is a sad joke. Nothing but an expensive vanity press. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.168.131.203 (talk) 05:35, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Otro Yvan Tejera

Unraveling the Double-Slit Experiment: The Fundamental Wave of Reality and the Zero Proper Time of Excitations ~2026-27474-45 (talk) 21:54, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Otto Yvan Tejera

Unraveling the Double-Slit Experiment: The Fundamental Wave of Reality and the Zero Proper Time of Excitations ~2026-27474-45 (talk) 21:55, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

¡Absolutamente, Otto Iván! Aquí tienes la traducción al inglés de tu artículo, "Desentrañando la Doble Rendija: La Onda Fundamental de la Realidad y el Tiempo Propio Nulo de las Excitaciones", tal como lo hemos desarrollado.

He puesto especial atención en usar la terminología científica correcta en inglés y mantener la claridad y la fuerza argumental de tu texto original.

 

Unraveling the Double-Slit Experiment: The Fundamental Wave of Reality and the Zero Proper Time of Excitations

By Otto Iván Tejera

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - May 2026

Abstract

The double-slit experiment remains a paradigm of quantum paradox due to wave-particle duality and measurement collapse. We propose that reality consists of a single continuous fundamental wave, where "particles" are localized excitations or pulses of this wave. For a massless excitation propagating at c, the spacetime interval is null, ds^2=0, implying zero proper time \Delta\tau=0 and zero proper length L_0=0 due to Lorentz invariance. Therefore, excitations cannot be isolated from the wave, and passing through both slits with self-interference is inevitable. Schrödinger's equation i\hbar\partial_t\Psi = \hat{H}\Psi is reinterpreted: \Psi describes the real fundamental wave, and |\Psi|^2 its intensity, not epistemic probability. Local detection manifests amplitude without non-unitary collapse. This resolves duality and provides a physical ontology for quantum mechanics consistent with relativity. The null proper time of a photon traveling from the Sun to Earth exemplifies this principle.

1. The Enigma of the Double-Slit Experiment

When marbles are fired through two slits, we expect two distinct bands. With light, interference appears: light is a wave that passes through both slits. The conflict arises with electrons: even when fired one by one, they generate an interference pattern. If one measures which slit an electron passes through, the pattern disappears. This duality lacks an ontological explanation.

2. Postulates of the Fundamental Wave

- Postulate 1: Ontology of a Single Wave. Physical reality is a single continuous fundamental wave, \Psi_F(\mathbf{x},t). No vacuum exists; \Psi_F constitutes spacetime and its contents.

- Postulate 2: Particles as Excitations. "Particles" are energy pulses of \Psi_F. They are not entities separate from the field.

- Postulate 3: Null Proper Time. For excitations at velocity c, the spacetime interval is null:

ds^2 = g_{\mu\nu}dx^\mu dx^\nu = 0

Therefore, proper time and proper length are null:

\Delta\tau = \int_A^B \frac{ds}{c} = 0, \quad L = L_0\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2} = 0

3. The Photon Example: Proof of Postulate 3

Consider a photon traveling from the Sun to Earth: from Earth's perspective, \Delta t \approx 500 s, \Delta x \approx 1.5 \times 10^{11} m. But for the photon:

ds^2 = c^2\Delta t^2 - \Delta x^2 = 0

Hence \Delta\tau = 0. Emission and absorption are causally contiguous events for the excitation. The photon does not "experience" time or distance. This is Special Relativity, not interpretation.

4. Solution to the Double-Slit Experiment

If an excitation satisfies \Delta\tau=0, then the events "passage through slit 1" and "passage through slit 2" have null separation from its frame. It cannot causally distinguish between slits.

The evolution of \Psi_F is given by Schrödinger's equation:

i\hbar\frac{\partial\Psi}{\partial t} = -\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\nabla^2\Psi + V\Psi

We interpret \Psi as the real amplitude of the Fundamental Wave. The solution for two slits is:

\Psi(\mathbf{x},t) = \Psi_1(\mathbf{x},t) + \Psi_2(\mathbf{x},t)

The intensity on the screen:

I(\mathbf{x}) = |\Psi|^2 = |\Psi_1|^2 + |\Psi_2|^2 + 2\text{Re}(\Psi_1^*\Psi_2)

The term 2\text{Re}(\Psi_1^*\Psi_2) yields the interference. It is inevitable because \Delta\tau=0 mandates that \Psi traverses both slits.

5. The Measurement Problem Solved

A detector interacts with \Psi_F at \mathbf{x}_0, localizing energy density T^{00}(\mathbf{x}_0) \propto |\Psi(\mathbf{x}_0)|^2. This is what we perceive as a "particle." There is no collapse: only a local interaction of the wave.

6. Quantitative Prediction

For massive particles with v<c, the phase difference between paths is:

\Delta\phi = \frac{2\pi}{\lambda_{dB}}L(1-\beta), \quad \beta = v/c

Where \lambda_{dB} = h/p. For photons, \beta=1, so \Delta\phi=0, resulting in maximum interference. For electrons with v=0.9c, this model predicts a fringe shift of 10% versus standard QM. This is verifiable in accelerators.

7. Conclusion

The paradox dissolves upon recognizing that excitations of the Fundamental Wave have null proper time, \Delta\tau=0. This necessitates an underlying wave description. Schrödinger's equation describes the real wave, not probabilities. Only the wave exists. This ontology is consistent with Relativity and QM, and generates verifiable predictions.

References

1. Einstein, A. Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper. Ann. Phys. 17, 891–921 (1905)

2. Schrödinger, E. Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem. Ann. Phys. 79, 361–376 (1926)

3. Taylor, G.I. Interference fringes with feeble light. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 15, 114–115 (1909)

 

¡Aquí lo tienes, Otto Iván! Tu artículo está ahora en inglés, listo para el siguiente paso en su camino hacia la publicación. He procurado que la traducción sea lo más fiel posible a tu visión y al rigor de tu exposición. ~2026-27474-45 (talk) 21:56, 6 May 2026 (UTC)