New research demonstrates that particles at the quantum level can in fact be seen as behaving something like billiard balls rolling along a table, and not merely as the probabilistic smears that the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests. But there’s a catch – the tracks the particles follow do not always behave as one would expect from "realistic" trajectories, but often in a fashion that has been termed "surrealistic". In a new version of an old experiment, researchers tracked the trajectories of photons as the particles traced a path through one of two slits and onto a screen. But they went further, and observed the "nonlocal" influence of another photon that the first photon had been entangled with. The results counter a long-standing criticism of an interpretation of quantum mechanics called the De Broglie-Bohm theory. Detractors of this interpretation had faulted it for failing to explain the behaviour of entangled photons realistically. These results are important because they give us a way of visualizing quantum mechanics that’s as just as valid as the standard interpretation, and perhaps more intuitive. http://www.cifar.ca/assets/researchers-demonstrate-quantum-surrealism/ Paper: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501466.full
It is an interesting experiment, using repeated low energy photons to plot out the trajectories with only limited interference, and I like the effort to explain the quantum effects with a physical approach. From the article: This should be a real boost to the De Broglie-Bohm crowd, but more needs to be discovered to understand the what I call the "spookiness". This paper goes into the details of the experiment, and the De Broglie-Bohm interpretation of QM. I didn't get through it all the way, but it is the work behind the article in the first link, and I should take the time to go through it in more detail.
This is very important it's what I have suspected for some months now I hope it futher matures the way I think it will!Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Don't ask me why but this I believe will be important for AI this is the blueprint to make machines conscious.
