Why does simply shifting the distance of the diffracting hole from the screen change the diffraction pattern?

I’ve asked myself this question more than once, arguing with myself! If Esprit is right in his denial of wave-particle dualism, then HOW will he explain such a simple and well-known phenomenon to all opticians:

We change the distance between the screen and the diffracting object, for example, just a screen with a small hole, and this immediately changes the diffraction pattern. The center turns from dark to light and vice versa! Fresnel’s wave theory explains this easily and convincingly: The phase ratio of coherent waves coming to the screen changes and this changes the interference pattern! Simple and clear!

If there is no diffraction of waves (according to Esprit), but there is only a discrete quantum interaction of photons or electrons with atoms of the diffracted object, etc.?

How can removing the screen or bringing it closer to a diffracting object change the diffraction pattern?

A “roll call” between the matter of the screen and the diffracting object?

Instantaneous telepathy?

I didn’t know how to answer this simple question from the proponents of wave-particle dualism, whom I portrayed in frequent arguments with myself.

And so, at this minute, 20.00 on August 11, 2026, a funny thought suddenly came to me:

If we take a pocket flashlight with a lens and start moving it in relation to the screen, WHAT WILL HAPPEN? And there will be something similar to diffraction, the light spot will then concentrate into a central bright point, then spread out into a faded spot all over the screen.

The hole in the screen through which light passes, then diffracted into rings, is much larger than the “size” of photons, and quantum, discrete interactions can cause some of the photons to focus at a certain distance from the screen, then defocus, and such “foci” depending on the energy of the individual quantum interactions of photons with the atoms of the hole, and unlike the constant focal length of a flashlight lens, A LOT! Similarly, the choice of the wavelength of a monochromatic source: Depending on the photon energy (and it is directly related to the wavelength of the emitted photons), the energy of their quantum interaction with the atoms of the hole also changes, which means that the diffraction pattern also changes! The hole in the screen is a “multi-focus” collecting or scattering lens, depending on the energy of the photons and their quantum interactions with the atoms of the substance in which the hole exists. And REGARDLESS OF the type of atoms, but only on the energy of the photons. It is the same with electrons interacting with the three-dimensional lattice of a single crystal.

It seems to me that I have at least partially answered my objections.

Faciant meliora potentes.

11 VIII 2026