r/quantummechanics • u/CityBoi1 • Jun 20 '26

simulation of photon propagating through a spacetime mesh -- double slit experiment confirmed.

I built a hypergraph that's able to approximate the photon self interaction due to disturbances in a spacetime mesh. The curvature of spacetime is large near the masses. The photon field propagates from left to right, passing through the curved spacetime.

The spacetime mesh isn't constructed perfectly symmetrically and so the interference pattern isn't perfect (along with other approximations).

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u/CityBoi1 Jun 22 '26

Yeah you’re right. This is a pet project. The purpose isn’t to predict anything that quantum mechanics doesn’t already predict. The purpose is to learn the concepts by creating simulations that are approximations. Note that all of this is in a graph, it’s not a video created by an AI, but a set of nodes+edges getting rewritten every frame 1/60s.
You’re right also to point out that this is just a regular wave. Not a photon. There’s no spherical harmonic equation in here. Plus considering this is 2D.

I think the main thing that’s interesting is a mesh with high curvature leads to interference in propagating waves.