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RE: Schrödinger's Biggest Cat: "Quantum In Real Life"
Nicely written article. So let me ask you a question? This is a common question I ask all QM persons. What is your opinion on Pilot wave theory? @gokhan83kurt
Thank you for your nice thoughts on my article. Actually, I'm not a robust QM guy that much but I love to be related to it. So I'll be grateful for giving some of my opinions about Pilot-wave;
Perhaps the most excluded but most potent theory of quantum mechanics in history is the pilot-wave theory. For some reason, pilot-wave theory is a potentially widespread approach to the mathematics of quantum mechanics.
In other types of interpretations, the physical objects in the micro-universe are sometimes solved by the way they behave like particles, sometimes as waves. However, this does not give us a clear answer to what the physical objects in the micro-universe are. Pilot-wave theory offers a different solution proposal. and being micro or macro doesn't matter it tells us that the particles in the entire universe are particles and waves are the waves. As the dimensions become smaller, the wave-particle interaction becomes more important. In fact, a wave accompanies and guides a particle.The movements of the particle affect the wave, the movements of the wave affect the particle. That means we have two interconnected variables in hand. Two variables cannot be solved with one equation. For this reason, in the pilot-wave theory, in addition to the Schrödinger equation, a guiding wave equation is used in the quantum space.
There isn't any wave-particle duality approach in this interpretation. The universe is realistic, determinist, and there is no need to distinguish a micro or macro universe because all of the universes behaves in the same way. However, there is a great reason why the pilot-wave theory has not been adopted despite all these positive philosophical features. In this theory, there is no locality in the guiding wave, it spreads throughout the whole universe and has full of knowledge.
Of course, the nature of the universe does not necessarily have to be in shape, just because physicists or people want it. It would not be wrong to say that all these interpretations give the same conclusions as the Copenhagen interpretation and that strong experiments to make one of them more preferable to another have not yet been developed. One day such experiments can be carried out. We can say that choosing one from the other will be related to your philosophical preferences rather than physics unless these experiments are carried out and an interpretation is signified far ahead of the others.@dexterdev
One of the mature replies I ever got from a Physics person. To be honest, I am not an expert. But most of the physics students even doing PhD I have met have not even heard about this theory. (Especially young guys. Most of them take inherent randomness for granted!) I am not a QM person. Philosophically Pilot wave theory is satisfying (for me personally).
Who knows, maybe one day, We (as the generation) or our children will be the ones who make new interpretations of Quantum Mechanics! Untill that day, We're going to stick to our experiments to make our roads...
I recently saw a 3blue1brown youtube video saying that Heisenberg Uncertainity principle is a consequence of fourier duals instead of any inherent Quantumness! Do you have any comments?
Do you have any exact link to this? I should watch it first to say something.