I built this little apparatus for under $100 where you can get oil droplets to bounce and replicate some of the key phenomena of quantum mechanics!
Single slit interference: check
Double slit experiment: double check
Tunneling: yes!
Quantization: you bet!
It's pretty cool that you can see how all of these phenomena could work using pilot wave dynamics, a theory first proposed by de Broglie. What do you think? Do you like pilot wave theories like de Broglie and Bohmian mechanics? Or do you prefer the Copenhagen Interpretation of standard quantum mechanics.
Dan Kassiday
2016-11-19 01:43:51 +0000 UTC