Descartes and the Photo-Electric Effect and Double Slit Experiment

Descartes and the Photo-Electric Effect and Double Slit Experiment

Descartes explained the properties of light that matches the Photo-Electric Effect and Double Slit Experiment

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In 1637, Rene Descartes published La Dioptrique which explained the 3 properties of light as a carrier, fluid-wave, and as a ball.

Properties of Light
  • As a carrier, it transmits information such as colors, and energy such as heat.
  • As a fluid-wave, it spreads in all directions.
  • As a ball, it bounces and bends its path when hitting material objects.

In normal movement, light is a wave. But it becomes a particle whenever it hits something.

This is now seen in the double-slit experiment where the insertion of a filter converts electrons from waves into particles. The continued sending of particles then forms a wave pattern.

This destroys the idea that the act of observation collapses wave function.

Descartes’ analogy for light being a particle was a tennis ball hitting the water.

Tennis photons

A tennis ball hitting the water can have 3 outcomes depending on the energy of the ball.

  1. It can be deflected if it has high energy (line ABL)
  2. It can go straight if it has medium energy (line ABD)
  3. Iit can sink down if it has less energy (line ABG)

This is now seen in the Photoelectric Effect credited to Einstein.

Photo-electric Effect Scam

Einstein used the Photoelectric Effect to create the concept of quanta, which were the light balls to Descartes.

This is by grouping h with E in E = hf

Einstein then imbued the property of time on those quanta in order to create the theory of Relativity wherein light is used as a measuring rod.

But Descartes would do the ooposite and base the photoelectric effect on f instead of E

Instead of extending E = hf to time as measuring rod, Descartes would have extended it to f as wave-frequencies.

To Descartes, this measuring rod property of light is a consequence of it being a carrier. In this case, light becomes a carrier of spacetime information.

The main difference between Descartes and Einstein is that Descartes’ spacetime has far more properties than what can be relayed or carried by light.

  • One of these is material gravity (now called Newtonian gravity) and electromagnetic gravity (now called dark matter).
  • Another is constant expansion, now seen as dark energy.
  • Still another is the liquid properties of spacetime, now seen in gravitational waves.

So Cartesian Physics unites the Double-Slit Experiment with the Photoelectric Effect and Relativity while giving insights on spacetime through Galaxy Rotation and the Hubble expansion. All of these are done with a single principle that Electromagnetism has 3 inherent properties written in 1637.

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