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</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457373918553_6894" class="MsoNormal">Vladimir:</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457373918553_6893" class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your comment. </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457373918553_6892" class="MsoNormal"> </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457373918553_6891" class="MsoNormal">I would like to see the results of the varying intensity of
waves-of-water experiment. It may be done in a ripple tank. Can you do this?</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457373918553_6889" class="MsoNormal">I think you have an interest in doing this experiment
because your Figs.3, 5, and 6 (“The Cancellation …”) predicts a flow for such a
situation which would be different for other models. This seemed to be a point
in your paper. It also would have significance for the STOE model, especially
for an assumption that the plenum carries the inertia (my paper “Inertia
according to the STOE”). Water has inertia, hence may be an analogy of how the
plenum works which was assumed in the STOE. </div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457373918553_6922" class="MsoNormal">I was thinking of building a ripple tank. But if one exists,
using it would mean the job would be done correctly (so reflections from the
sides are avoided). Reflections from the mask and screen are significant.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457373918553_6924" class="MsoNormal">Our discussion on our models is getting complex. So one
point at a time:</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457373918553_6926" class="MsoNormal">Vladimir: “I have re-read your paper and finally understood
your point about fringes appearing bright from the opposite diffracting edge.
Whatever theory is used to account for this, it boils down to the<i> path</i>
energy takes between slit and screen.”</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457373918553_6927" class="MsoNormal">Hodge: “path” means to the STOE the trajectory photons
travel in position and momentum coordinates (I use coordinates rather than the
mathematical ‘space’) (Bohm’s model). But there is another form of energy - the
plenum whose waves direct the photon. The bright spots are the result of paths
of the photons sticking a screen. Now a subtlety: The photon tends to move
toward minimum potential like matter in a gravitational field or a surfer on a
water wave. The Fig.1 in “diffraction…” shows the minima of the plenum waves.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Vladimir: “That your simulation accounts for this is
impressive - but it is not clear from your paper what are the details of this
simulation and resultant paths.” </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Hodge: The details and equations are found in previous
papers. But that is a lot to digest and it is considerably different than
standard models and concepts. The Bohm model has a problem because it does not
identify the source of the pilot wave. The STOE in the diffraction experiment
suggest the source is the photon (matter) moving through the plenum (ether,
space). Next the plenum wave has a speed much greater than <i>c</i>. This
allows the wave to travel from the photon to all other matter (mask and
screen)(wires in the Afshar experiment) and return to the photon to cause a
standing wave to which the photon is pushed to a minimum (divergence of the
plenum like gravity). That is the wave in the Transaction Interpretation is not
a time reversed wave but a reflected wave that creates the standing wave. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">So your model suggests some significant characteristics of
the plenum model. Hence, my interest. That is the plenum must have inertia to
form waves that the wave equation applies. That is how water waves act as they
do. What is inertia and inertial mass and how to derive the Equivalence
Principle. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Vladimir: “Another thing I remembered: the patterns of your
ray paths greatly resemble the standing waves also known as bow waves or the
wake for example of a speeding boat, in hydrodynamics.”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Hodge: Note: The STOE is NOT a ray model. I referenced this
because it a long-standing conventional tool that bears some resemblance to
your model. I don’t have “rays”. The lines in Fig.1 (“Diffraction…”) are the
trajectories of the photons.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">“Standing waves” in the STOE require a reflection or other
waves that are superimposed (summed). I note in your Fig. 4 and 5 (“The
cancellation…”) there are standing waves before the mask. Now consider the
source of the wave being on the other side of the mask so that the waves
impinging on the mask are reflected and the waves in the slit continue on and
no longer influence the photon. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Vladimir: “…you can see that the streamlined energy flows
through these maxima not along them as in your ray model!”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Hodge: That would be the point of the experiment.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Vladimir: “These non- interfering maxima may be what Chandra
is talking about? They do not negate waves...”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Hodge: yes. The experiment may have application to others. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Hodge</div>
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