Eli5: Why can’t the wave-like behavior of photons through a slit be explained by the photon coming too close to the edge of the slit, being influenced by gravity or the strong nuclear force of the atoms in the slit material, thus causing it to change it’s trajectory and only appear wave-like?
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Changing the trajectory is not a problem, this can easily be explained by a particle model. In fact this is exactly what we see when you try to measure which slit a given photon travels through. What you can’t explain with a particle is the interference pattern, which only appears when you don’t try to measure at the slit.
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