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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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I was inspired by your "challenge" statement to take a look at your paper and experiment. Qudos for actually DOING the experiment. I had a quick think about your claim that this "experiment rejects wave models of diffraction and interference ". As someone who
 has carried out such theoretical work using path integrals I though I maybe help in explaining the conventional view. What one does to calculate interference (as opposed to mere superposition) is to effectively consider all possible classical paths, calculate
 the length of each, calculate the final phase change for each path from this length, then integrate over all possible paths. It seemed to me, just looking at it, that one would then get the kind of pattern you observe in your experiment.<br>
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Rather than then go and do the calculation myself, which would take a quite a bit of work and distract me too much from my own work, I looked up the experiment on google to see if anyone else had done it and analysed it in conventional terms. You can find it
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 09, 2017 7:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [General] Light diffraction experiment rejects wave models of light<br>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502301000191_7980">Thanks for the challenge.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502301000191_8079">Please send your paper in link (website) , in .txt in .pdf, form.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502301000191_7548">I have made the claim the following experiment rejects wave models of diffraction and interference experiments. I would like for your model to quantitatively explain the experiment. Then I could change and get
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502301000191_6293">The Hodge experiment remains unexplained by any model save mine. It rejects wave models. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502301000191_6295">Do the experiment. It's easy and inexpensive. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502301000191_7764">If anyone has access to a photon counter and is willing to do the experiment, I'd like to know.</span></div>
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