The pilot-wave dynamics of walking droplets on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2016–2017.
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A short MIT Math Lab video showing millimetric droplets bouncing and walking across a vibrating fluid bath, guided by their own pilot waves. These droplets show diffraction, tunneling and quantized orbits, which were once thought to belong only to quantum systems.
Cited in pilot-wave theory threads as a vivid visualization of how quantum-like behavior can arise in a classical system.
“a nice visualization of the ideas behind the pilot wave/particle system”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
this isn't theoretical, but is a nice visualization of the ideas behind the pilot wave/particle system ▶ this video the plot at 1:40 is where my mind was blown.
in “Pilot-wave quantum theory gains experimental support” · View on HN
As the main hypothesis in this paper is that the momentum is transferred by pilot waves, it is worth to emphasize the (cited there) most known recent approaches - Couder's experiments which use classical object with wave-particle duality (droplet coupled with waves it creates), getting e.g. interference in double-slit, orbit quantization and many other quantum-like phenomena: [link] ▶ this video
in “EmDrive study officially published” · View on HN
I'm just going to leave these links for those as curious as I was: [link] [link] [Video: The pilot-wave dynamics of walking droplets] ▶ this video
in “Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support” · View on HN