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Another interpretation of the double-slit posits a guiding 'Pilot Wave' separate from physical particles... aka DeBroglie-Bohm Theory or Bohmian Mechanics. App
by farrelle25 10mo ago
Another interpretation of the double-slit posits a guiding 'Pilot Wave' separate from physical particles... aka DeBroglie-Bohm Theory or Bohmian Mechanics.
Apparently it's not popular among professional physicsts though John Bell investigated it a bit. Einstein had some unpublished notes in the 1920s about a "Gespensterfeld" (ghost field) that guided particles.
Born was influenced by this 'Ghost field' idea when he published his famous interpretation of the 'Wave Function' |Ψ|^2 as a probability rather than a physical field.
More info: Nonlocal and local ghost fields in quantum correlations. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9502017 https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9502017
- mock-possum 10mo agoPilot wave is still my favorite - I don’t really believe it, but I like the image
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- naasking 10mo agoIt is indeed a great way to translate classical intuitions to the quantum domain.
- rhdunn 10mo agoVeritasium did a video on this [1] with a surface of oil to replicate the effect on a petri dish. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ