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The Anglerfish Interferometer: A Controlled Matter-Wave Decoherence Test Using Marine Bioluminescent Light

Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This paper presents a hypothetical experimental framework for testing how a calibrated marine-bioluminescent optical field may influence matter-wave coherence through conventional path-dependent optical coupling. The biological source is physically separated from the matter-wave beamline, and its emitted light is transported through a measured optical channel into an interaction region located after coherent splitting and before particle detection. The primary observables are fringe visibility, phase, and particle transmission. The experiment is first calibrated using a traceable artificial light source and a preregistered photon-dose response. Biological-source trials are then compared against physically matched artificial-source controls. A response reproduced by the artificial source is interpreted as conventional optical coupling; any residual difference is treated only as an exploratory anomaly requiring independent replication and exclusion of conventional confounds. The paper develops the optical-dose budget, continuous wavelength/path-separation dependence, calibration protocol, statistical controls, falsification criteria, and candidate matter-wave platforms. Direct visible-photon scattering from free electrons is shown to be exceptionally weak, motivating resonant atom interferometry, cavities, photonic structures, or other enhanced coupling platforms. Marine bioluminescence is used as a controlled optical source because of its blue-green spectrum rather than because any special biological or consciousness-dependent interaction is assumed. No biological or interferometry experiment is reported, and no new physical effect is claimed. The work is a falsifiable experimental proposal and quantitative design framework.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21429394
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7169666492
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