Proposed Double-Slit Experiments Colliding Antimatter with Matter, and Live Spores with Protons

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to stimulate researchers to do the following proposed experiments, based on the well-known double-slit experiments and the resulting experimentally established wave-particle duality that all particles of matter have a wavelength and a wave-nature. It is proposed to form a low-density stream of antimatter particles and to pass them through a double-slit, and to form a low-density stream of their matter counterparts intersecting with the antimatter stream, just after they pass through double-slits. Calculated de Broglie wavelengths and slit widths are provided for chosen beam velocities. Objectives are to determine if antimatter annihilates with intersecting matter, and if radioactive emission is neutralized, while they are expressing their wave-natures, or if interference patterns of light and dark stripes appear on detection screens, which would indicate that no annihilation had occurred and that the particles had re-materialized at detection screens. It is proposed to pass bacterial spores through a double-slit and collide them with a beam of protons with an objective to open a new field, Quantum Biophysics, to learn about the quantum nature and behavior of de Broglie waves of living cells. Engineering applications in the natural vacuum of space are discussed. These proposed experiments present a novel way to gather information about the nature and behavior of these de Broglie wave forms, about which almost nothing is known, and a way to confirm the quantum delocalization of bacterial spores and viruses into energy waves, which has bio-medical importance.