PBS Spacetime is always the best place to get an understanding of our faulty understanding of quantum mechanics. Watch this. the mystery is far from over and like Dirac indicated, new ideas are here needed. Lets hope the next generation will solve this for us as its been annoying some very clever people for well over a century now.
There is a good explanation of the idea here. Worth a read for those still perplexed by God playing dice. “To de Broglie, the double-slit experiment didn’t require an abstract, mysteriously collapsing wave function. Instead, he conceived of a real particle riding on a real pilot wave. The particle passes like driftwood through one slit or the other in the double-slit screen, even as the pilot wave passes through both. On the other side, the particle goes where the two wavefronts of the pilot wave constructively interfere and doesn’t go where they cancel out. “
Famous Experiment Dooms Pilot-Wave Alternative to Quantum Weirdness | Quanta Magazine
Oil droplets guided by “pilot waves” have failed to reproduce the results of the quantum double-slit experiment, crushing a century-old dream that there exists a single, concrete reality.
Penrose thinks that there is some real, physical “collapse” of a quantum superposition as objects grow big enough for gravity to become a significant part of the picture. Therefore: quantum mechanics might break down when confronted with gravity – when objects get big enough to “feel” significant gravitational force – so quantum mechanics needs modifying or reinterpreting.
Time doesn’t really exist, its just an emergent phenomenon we believe we percieve – according to Julian Barbour. Well, that’s his solution to the problem of time in physics and cosmology. Yep it’s as simply stated as it is radical.
PBS Spacetime is always the best place to get an understanding of our faulty understanding of quantum mechanics. Watch this. the mystery is far from over and like Dirac indicated, new ideas are here needed. Lets hope the next generation will solve this for us as its been annoying some very clever people for well over a century now.
There is a good explanation of the idea here. Worth a read for those still perplexed by God playing dice. “To de Broglie, the double-slit experiment didn’t require an abstract, mysteriously collapsing wave function. Instead, he conceived of a real particle riding on a real pilot wave. The particle passes like driftwood through one slit or the other in the double-slit screen, even as the pilot wave passes through both. On the other side, the particle goes where the two wavefronts of the pilot wave constructively interfere and doesn’t go where they cancel out. “
Adding the video as a link so you can see it.
Penrose thinks that there is some real, physical “collapse” of a quantum superposition as objects grow big enough for gravity to become a significant part of the picture. Therefore: quantum mechanics might break down when confronted with gravity – when objects get big enough to “feel” significant gravitational force – so quantum mechanics needs modifying or reinterpreting.
Simply put
Genius. Penrose always explains things so well – why make it more confusing with many worlds when you can have just the 1 we know and love?
Interesting, as Einstein once said: “Time and space are modes by which we think, and not conditions in which we live”
Time doesn’t really exist, its just an emergent phenomenon we believe we percieve – according to Julian Barbour. Well, that’s his solution to the problem of time in physics and cosmology. Yep it’s as simply stated as it is radical.