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A vast thanks to everyone.

Let us turn our eye from the result of the experiment, and the explanation for the results. Let us turn our eye instead to the setup of the experiment.

We have a box. It can be made of any kind of material, but what we are interested in is that it is, in fact, made of material. We have a material emitter, and we have a material detector. Underlying it all, we have the result of the presence of material: space-time. What is emitted is either a photon or an electron; either way, it's also material.

Classically, we would rule out interference of the experiment from the experimental apparatus as negligible. Contemporarily, we know the observer, the observed, and the environment in which they exist interfere with one another. At the individual or aggregate particle scale that our experiment operates, it would seem that the degree of experimental interference would be considerable.

It would seem to me from the explanations that I have been offered and that I have discovered for myself that the effect of the apparatus upon the test sample is neglected.

Amongst my concerns are the infinite well, the principle of least action/least resistance, and field composition. A photon which is confined to a box will have an escalating probability of escaping the box by whatever path most probable. Which path is determined by the composition of the space-time the photon traverses. The composition of space-time is determined by the material which pervades it.

Why would it be necessary for the photon to pass through the slits if it has other paths available to it? Including joining with/reflecting from/deflecting off/etc the barrier, the box, the emitter, or the other side of the detector? What prevents the photon from interacting with, interfering with, and being interfered with by the ambient materials? Same for the electron, but doubly so. It is said the photon interferes with itself. I say there is insufficient proof as presented to rule out components of the experimental apparatus as culprits.

Below is a rough sketch of what I am getting at. The cone is the emitter, the blue wave is the emitted particle, and the black waves are the boundaries of the experiment delineated by the material making up the experiment.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
-Ian