TITLE:
Experimental Proof of the Empty Waves Existence
AUTHORS:
Vladimir A. Skrebnev, Maria V. Polski
KEYWORDS:
Single Photon Experiment, de Broglie-Bohm Theory, Pilot Wave, Empty Wave, Subquantum Processes
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology,
Vol.11 No.2,
March
31,
2025
ABSTRACT: The appearance of a particle in a certain point in space, the full waves and the empty waves are considered as a consequence of subquantum processes. The experiment is described that measured the absorption of single photons by absorbers with various absorption coefficients, in one of the beams, after the photons interacted with the beam splitter. The measurements showed that the absorption corresponds to single photon traveling in either one or another beam. The results of our measurements and of single photon interference experiments, combined together, demonstrate the existence of the empty waves, that is, the excitations in the subquantum world, which do not contain a photon. We show that seemingly justified criticism of our interpretation of the experiment is not valid. New experiments are proposed to study single-photon interference involving an empty wave.