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There was a recent quantum doc on BBC which was a pretty good watch. I think it mentioned the term pilot wave but the message they gave was that Bell test exper

• foobarbaz1234 12y ago
  Only accessible in the UK ... :/
  • tachion 12y ago
    You can access that content by installing something like Hola plugin in your browser, works quite well for watching 'Hey I've Got Bit More News For You' ;)
• inclemnet 12y ago
  > the message they gave was that Bell test experiments proved that hidden variable interpretations were impossible and that the probabilistic reality of particles was undeniably true This isn't actually the case - Bell's theorem and subsequent verification demonstrate only that a theory of local hidden variables cannot be successful - the local part means that faster than light information transfer doesn't occur. You're allowed to have a pilot wave interpretation if it's nonlocal. I think this is actually a problem with these experiments - it's nice that they work, but we already knew pilot wave mathematics could describe quantum mechanics, with the caveat that nonlocality is necessary to explain everything. I don't think this nonlocality is (or can be) expressed in the fluid experiments, so presumably they can't actually replicate QM.
• smortaz 12y ago
  on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoPbsQeNc18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoPbsQeNc18