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[KickAssClown]

Well. I suppose that helps to clarify the details of the experiment, however it does not statisfy my sense of reasoning.

I understand and accept that the medium the photon is passing through/by/around/under/over/etc has an effect. Elementry, matter bends the path of light through space-time.

What I am questioning is whether or not the interpertation of the outcome of the experiment is correct, within reasonable certainty. There are, in my mind and observation, many possible explinations for the experimental outcome.

In my own view, I do not see why it is not possible, if not reasonable, that the photon does not merely leave the detecting area when the slit is closed. Following the path of least resistence/action. For that matter why does the interferance pattern have to be the result of the (same) photon impacting the surface of the detector?

I primarily think of things like Faraday cages, and other similar electromagnetic phenomena in this regard. Like I said, how can one neglect the matterial barrier, or the matterial observation equipment in this experiment?

As I have attempted to explain previously on this site, what if fundamental matter is point-like, and without mass-energy. In and of itself? What if mass-energy is the measurement of a ray between fundamental matter?

This question is non-trivial. If photons interact only approximately to how we would think and calculate then it is possible that the whole results of the experiment are thrown into question. Whether it is done with a photon or an electron.

Eitherway, assumptions are being made in the interpertation of the data which may not be entirely justified. Common-sense, sure. Scientifically, logically and mathematically sound, maybe not.