Single particle creates interference after double slit - Wave particle duality at the workshop

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drran · 2020-11 · Recommendation

IMHO, you should look at this video, where water droplet at macro scale « exists in two places at once » (demonstrates self interference when passing two slits). [VIDEO]

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drran · 2020-08 · Recommendation

If you want to develop intuition, look at this video: [VIDEO] . Please note that physics as science in general is advancing constantly, but mainstream physics advances in sprints. Currently, walking droplets and Pilot Wave Theory are not good enough to be included into mainstream physics.

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tsimionescu · 2020-02 · Recommendation

Interestingly, there is a (possibly still incomplete?) model of QM that explains this mystery and can even be replicated in human scale experiments: The de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave model. In this model, both the wave and the particle are simultaneously real. the particle is being moved around by the wave. When we get near the double slit, the wave naturally travels through both slits and forms an interference pattern.The particle randomly moves through one of the slits, and is them carried further by the interference pattern, the highest probability being that it will be carried to one of the local maxima. The nicest part is that this exact behavior can be seen by bouncing a droplet of oil or silicone on a vibrating bath of the same material: [VIDEO] . Of course, this being a consistent model for QM, it doesn't get away from the Bell inequalities, it doesn't have local realism. It does preserve realism, but it it is a nonlocal theory (some effects travel instantaneously).

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