The puzzle of the Mirror Image Reflection
Let us make an observation; if we turn off the pumps of a fish tank, then we can see the reflection of the content of the fish tank from the calm surface water of the fish tank. A fish sees its own image reflected from the calm surface water! (This sentence is made just to crystalize the image reflection phenomenon, and nothing else.) I do not know the percentage of this reflection. This observation shows that both sides of the water surface simply play the paramount role for the phenomenon of the mirror image reflection, and these reflections are expressed by the Optic Law for reflection.
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This is how QED (Quantum Electrodynamics theory) analyzes the mirror image reflection.
A photon is a quantum particle of light, and QED tells us that interactions between photons and electrons are very complicated processes, and they only can be analyzed by uncertainty principle and probabilities. Prof. Richard Feynman in his many lectures says in a reflection each photon gets absorbed by an electron and then this energized electron emits the reflected photon. If the interaction between photons and electrons is a quantum system, and it is governed by the uncertainty principle and the probabilities, then, the images that get reflected over the surface of calm water and the mirrors they always should get scrambled beyond any recognition, and they should never be recognizable, but that is not the case at all. We earnestly need to know how the mirror reflection, which it is a quantum system, produces the Optic Law, which it is based on the certainty for the direction of the reflection, and without any doubt it violates the core principles of QED. Why there is this disconnect between what QED principles say and what we observe in our daily lives? The knowledge of QED principles enabled us to recognize this peculiar puzzle, and that is a 2020 vision.
To answer this puzzle, QED analyzes the reflection process for one photon, and it concludes if the answer is valid for one photon, then the answer is valid for each and every photon that exists in any reflected image. Then, QED sets up an experiment: a photon source at point A emits a photon, this photon gets reflected by a mirror, and a photon gets detected at point C by a photomultiplier. (Our modern technologies have enabled us to emit and to detect one photon at a time, with remarkable precisions.)
To analyze this experiment QED has devised the method of “All-Path Integral approach”. In this method QED claims that the reflection happens from the entire surface of the mirror. Then, this QED method directs all the reflections from the entire surface of the mirror toward the detecting device at point C, and then it adds up all the amplitude vectors which are associated with each path, and it concludes that its result matches with the result from the Optic Law.
There is a big problem with this QED method! In every quantum mechanics analysis, every step has to be based on uncertainty and probabilities, then, directing all the reflections from the entire mirror surface toward the point C, is absolutely a wrong step, and QED statistical principles forbids it. There is absolutely no justification to make this gross assumption, actually QED core principles says we can never define the direction of the reflection with any certainty. Since the direction of reflection in QED is all statistical, and no direction can be defined, then QED simply and conveniently has adopted the detection point that it is provided by the Optic Law into its configuration, and naturally this produces exactly the same result, and then QED shamelessly announces that its result is in harmony with the Optic Law! In common language this is called cheating, fudging, fabricating, and deceiving. This is too shameful to admit that we have this disgraceful step in our scientific investigation. This faulty step voids this QED method altogether.
QED’s wavefunction method also verifies the falsehood of this QED method's faulty step. In wavefunction method there is absolutely no reason that the reflected wavefunctions from any point on the surface of the mirror to get collapsed at point C. Each of the wavefunction from each point on the mirror surface is spread out in vast area and in many directions, then, interjecting that they all collapse at point C, that is a classical step, and it is not allowed for any quantum mechanics system. We may only figure out the probabilities of each wavefunction to collapse at point C, but certainly we cannot say that they all collapse at point C.
I think there should not be any deception or fabrication for any of our scientific analyses. That would be too childish and self-defeating for any of our scientific explanations. I wonder how such shameful cheating could have escaped the inquisitive minds of all physicists for over 90 years. However, whether this mistake happened intentionally, or inadvertently, but this mistake has shielded QED from being exposed, that it does not have any clue, what is happening at the surface of the mirror in the process of the mirror image reflection.
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In this section I would like to examine another QED argument, which it is about the reflection of photon from the surface of water or a glass.
Experiments show that the width of the glass mysteriously affects the probability of the reflection from both surfaces of glass. For the light that it is normal to the surface of a glass the probability of the reflection is 4%. And if the light gets reflected from both surfaces of a glass, the probability of reflection instead of being 4% + 4% = 8%, the probability of reflection would depend on the thickness of the glass, and it mysteriously varies between 0% and 16%. (I hope this experiment has been tested thoroughly, and it is not a hoax.)
To solve this mysterious puzzle, QED invented the amplitude vector method. The square value of the amplitude vectors gives the probability of the reflection. The length of the amplitude vector for the reflection from one surface of a glass is defined by 2, and that makes the probability of the reflection from one surface to be 2 x 2 = 4%. For two surfaces, first we need to add up their amplitude vectors, based on the thickness of the glass, the length of the summation of the amplitude vectors for both surfaces varies between 0 and 4, and the square of these values are 0% to 16%. We can choose a glass thickness that it reflects 0%, and we can choose a glass thickness that it reflects 16%. With various glass thicknesses we can have reflections between 0% and 16%. With this clever method QED established a solution for the mystery of 0% to 16% reflection. So far so good, and so dandy!
Now, I repeat the experiment with a glass thickness that it reflects 16%. Then, I choose two other glasses with the same thickness. I place the second glass parallel to the first one, so the light that passes through the first glass, it gets reflected by the second glass with similar probabilities, I make the distance between the two glasses to be such, that the amplitude vectors for the reflection from the second glass to be at the same direction of the first glass. As a result the value of the summation of their amplitude vectors will be twice as much of the first glass. Now, I place the third glass parallel to the second glass with similar specifications. Now, for the probability of the reflection from these three layered glasses, first we need to add-up their amplitude vectors. The length of the summation of their amplitude vectors is: (2 + 2) + (2 + 2) + (2 + 2) = 12, and that makes the probability of reflection from these three layered glasses to be 12 x 12 = 144%! Obviously this figure cannot be right; probability of any reflection can never get more than 100%. This bogus result shows maybe QED’s solution is not that dandy after all.
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