The pilot-wave dynamics of walking droplets By Daniel M. Harris & John W. M. Bush

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmC0ygr08tE

The following video illustrates an alternativ approach to Quantum Mechanics and the wave/particle dualism.

Mainly a wave created through the resonance of an particle and an medium guides/pilots the particle based on it’s interaction oscillation. The minimal delay after the creation of the resonance wave and the subsequent contact between particle and wave place the particle on a slight offset to the waves high point and subsequently the wave is pushing or piloting the particle in a certain direction. As the final movement emerges from a iterative interaction the resulting path for each particle emitted by a certain source is somewhat random but shows a probabilistic coherence in the great numbers.

This view is an eyeopener for me and I am very much interested in the limits and possibilities for explaining Quantum Strangeness and if this interpretation might become the mainstream theory one day.

Make sure to check Veritasium for some thoughts and explanation on the above video:

Also watch the amazing footage created by Bryce Parry and Josh Parker:

The theory behind this is called Bohmian Mechanics (de Broglie–Bohm theory). The following video explains the theory:

Further reading can be found here: http://math.mit.edu/~bush/?page_id=484

De Broglie–Bohm theory

The de Broglie–Bohm theory is an interpretation of quantum mechanics which postulates that, in addition to the wavefunction, an actual configuration of particles exists, even when unobserved. The evolution over time of the configuration of all particles is defined by a guiding equation. The evolution of the wave function over time is given by the Schrödinger equation. The theory is named after Louis de Broglie (1892–1987) and David Bohm (1917–1992). The theory is deterministic and explicitly nonlocal: the velocity of any one particle depends on the value of the guiding equation, which depends on the configuration of all the particles under consideration. Measurements are a particular case of quantum processes described by the theory—for which it yields the same quantum predictions as other interpretations of quantum mechanics. The theory does not have a "measurement problem", due to the fact that the particles have a definite configuration at all times. The Born rule in de Broglie–Bohm theory is not a postulate. Rather, in this theory, the link between the probability density and the wave function has the status of a theorem, a result of a separate postulate, the "quantum equilibrium...
Definition from Wikipedia – De Broglie–Bohm theory

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