A Serious Challenge To Quantum Mechanics, Part 4, Live Demonstration

Eric will quickly review published past experiments to see how energy quantization has been tested. These were beam-split coincidence tests performed with visible light and two detectors. Then, a live demonstration of the same kind of test will be performed, but now uniquely with gamma-rays from spontaneous radioactive decay. After about a ten-minute run, instrument readings will be put into a simple calculation that compares its experimental coincidence rate to its accidental chance coincidence rate. For this kind of test, past investigators have asserted that exceeding the chance coincidence rate would refute quantum mechanics. Here, by using gamma-rays, we have the great advantage of detector energy resolution. Energy resolution provides three advantages: 1) a reliable test of one-at-a-time emission, 2) in the beam-split test, we see pairs of full-height (energy) pulses, not pairs of half-height pulses, and 3) a simpler test can be performed with a single detector. In this beam-split coincidence test with two detectors, we will see full-energy pulses overlapping in time in both detectors at rates exceeding chance. The source emits one-at-a-time, but we read two-at-a-time. If you think energy is quantized, this looks like a violation of energy conservation. By embracing energy conservation we realize a threshold effect, which means energy is not quantized. By a threshold effect, we mean that a sub-quantized state in the detector molecules exists ahead of the incident gamma energy, which adds up to conserve energy. Quantum mechanics denies such a sub-quantized state. The simpler single-detector test will also be demonstrated to reveal the sub-quantum effect. Instead of pairs of full-height pulses in two detectors, we can see twice-high pulses at rates exceeding chance. The theory behind this threshold effect is supported by Planck's second theory of 1911, where h is a threshold of action, not a quantum of action. My intent is to inspire viewers to perform the single-detector test to ensure its validity and then elaborate. The entire session will be open to interruption for questions and comments.
In this lecture series, Part 1 described many successful sub-quantum experiments with both matter and light, Part 2 outlined the history of how this sub-quantum effect was overlooked, and Part 3 emphasized the threshold model that I devised, which predicted the sub-quantum effect. Website http://www. thresholdmodel.com has links to those lecture videos and their slide PDFs. You will not want to miss this unique event.

Biography: Eric is a lifelong independent researcher and inventor. He studied physics at California State University. His published papers include those in Progress in Physics, Physics Essays, and the 2015 SPIE What are Photons? Conference Proceedings. Videos of past presentations, a video of the experiment

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