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Quantization of a bouncing oil drop guided by its own pilot-wave
- sjcsjc 13y agoThis is a pretty remarkable phenomenon which as far as I can tell has had little attention on HN. Yves Couder is a French physicist who has demonstrated quantum phenomena on a macroscopic scale. See also this video from eg 2:12 (two oil bouncing drops in orbit around each other) and 2:43 (a single bouncing oil drop diffracting through a double slit). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHHaDWEWtQE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHHaDWEWtQE I haven't studied physics since school some decades ago, so I'm really just an interested layman. But surely this raises some fascinating questions. Would any of the physicists here care to comment on the significance of this? For example, does it make it possible that quantum phenomena are deterministic after all? And if so, what would that mean for quantum computation and quantum encryption?