I'll try different images so you'll decide which one fits better as a model:
Close you eyes and transport [inside your mind] yourlseves to a coast-line right near the ocean waves. Let's assume that the waves of water hit the shores in a perfect 90 degress angle. Now... imagine yourselves standing in a spinnin platform right where the waves touch the land. If you were to draw the resulting movement of the waves as you see them, you'll end up drawing a perfect sine wave... don't you?
Since the water waves will always arrive in a 90 degrees angle with respect to a paralell refered to the coast-line, the picture in your drawing should be a perfect line but since the frame where you observe those waves is in a continue rotational pattern, as the wave goes through and returns it has formed the path of a sine wave... got it?
The example could be reproduced in a piece of paper, but I wanted to include the ocean waves since gravity must be one day interpreted as just that.
Take a piece of paper and draw a perfect circle in the center of the paper. then place the tip of the pen in one of the points along with the circle and as you rotate the circle try to move the pen up and down in a perfect straight line. What you'll get is no other than a sine wave... RIGHT?
Let's assume that the entire planet, Earth, is a huge circle as the one you draw before. Let's assume also that those huge and powerful gravitational waves coming from the sun hit the surface and continue their way across the interior core of the planet to later proceed their spinning in an elliptical rotation that includes other planets and moons too.
Here comes the greatest REVELATION I really wanted you to see:
Wouldn't this 3 dimensional structure of those waves hitting the surface [those making for the eather responsible for the position and movement of planets around the sun] look JUST THE WAY WE HAVE SEEN IN OTHER VERY FAMILIAR, AN INTERESTING AND CONTRADICTING EXPERIMENT BEFORE?
YOU BET! "The two slit experiment!"
If you look at the pattern of dark and clear patches... alternating regions of shades and light... don't you recognize the true nature of those results using the help of my images?
You need to see it closer! Instead of an accumulative increase of "particles" in certain regions of the screen, look at it as the 2 dimensional representation of a continue sine-wave one link to the next one!
Try to see the darkest regions as the top of the sine wave and the more clear spaces as the curving into an almost white region. There are a lot of books where you may find the original photo of the experiment performed with atoms and you'll see it easier.
You probably know that the contradicting experiment have been reproduced using not only light, but "sub-atomic particles" of all kinds and even... atoms!
The pattern will always emerge the same way no matter the intensity or density of the emission.... the problem that seems very weird and unexplainable was [from the point of views of physicists] why is the universe so jelous in "insisting" to produce the same spectrum over and over again! (?)
I wrote an article about it right here in this forum [years ago!]. I mixed this same conclusions with a little bit of fantasy and fiction but the idea behind the conclusions was the same then as it is today.
If you do some little internet research about the experiment you'll see my point and what I trying you to visualize...
Please... go to the web page below, look yourselves the puzzle closer than ever and see why it is so easy to understand something "they" can't explain at all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
The answer does not lie in the mystery of what "particle" hit what point of the screen at a given time! The particular impact of each and every "particle" [quantum of energy to me] is entirely...
IRRELEVANT... MY DEAR PROFESSOR!
What's important... what really determines the eventual formation of the spectrum and therefore the pattern of bright and dark bands in the screen was the sinusoidal structure of the incoming eather from the sun as it touches each and every point of the surface of the Earth... but not limited to the surface alone!
It is the rotation of the Earth what "makes" the eather waves from the sun to "look" as sine waves in its structure. The sine structure of the density energy-mass distributed in a 3 dimensional space is what finally determined the eventual PATH EACH "PARTICLE" WILL FOLLOW IN ITS ROUTE TOWARD THE SCREEN!
Now! If you were a physics student... do you think that this kind of analysis its what will make you a good student in the class?
Do not repeat what you have seen in those images in front of your teacher or professor if you don't want him or her to call you... an "alien" with too much fantasy and little knowledge of science...(?)
Thank you!
HUMANBYDEFAULT
Last note:
Do you want a good laughing? Go to your closest library and borrow ones of Michio Kaku's book where he included the "two slit experiment" in an entire chapter. I'm trying to recall the title but I read it a long time ago... sorry! The point is "making the long story short" that he explained the origin of the spectrum or pattern of bright and dark bands by assuming that electrons had a wave-function sort of "attached" to them and that the wave was responsible for "calculating" the right spot where each electron HAD TO HIT! I don't think that Michio Kaku had an idea of the stupid and barvarian of his own conclusions! He [as many of "them"] blamed the pattern on the interaction of different waves as they build up in the screen. But he couldn't explain why the pattern insist itself in the same shape even when electrons where shot ONE-BY-ONE! If there was a different explanation to the one I just gave you... there would be NO WAY to explain the formation of the pattern over and over again NO MATTER THE TIME DILATION BETWEEN SHOTS!!
Imagine that you try to reproduce the two slit experiment shotting one electron-atom or what-have-you! with a time lapse of one month between them!
Do you want to bet against me that the pattern will still be there after a 5 year experiment? I'll win the bet... you know?
So! ask your professor about his scientific opinion concerning why the spectrum in that experiment and have a good time laughing with me!