This is my take on things. In the first decades of the 20th century, physicists hotly debated how to make sense of the strange phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as the tendency of subatomic particles to behave like both particles and waves. One early theory, called pilot-wave theory, proposed that moving particles are borne along on some type of quantum wave, like driftwood on the tide. But this theory ultimately gave way to the so-called Copenhagen interpretation, which gets rid of the carrier wave, but with it the intuitive notion that a moving particle follows a definite path through space.
Recently, Yves Couder, a physicist at Université Paris Diderot, has conducted a series of experiments in which millimeter-scale fluid droplets, bouncing up and down on a vibrated fluid bath, are guided by the waves that they themselves produce. In many respects, the droplets behave like quantum particles, and in a recent commentary in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*, John Bush, an applied mathematician at MIT who specializes in fluid dynamics, suggests that experiments like Couder’s may ultimately shed light on some of the peculiarities of quantum mechanics. The *Aharonov–Bohm effect*, is one of these peculiarities. This effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an electrically charged particle is influenced by an electromagnetic field (*E*, *B*), despite being confined to a region in which both the magnetic field *B* and electric field *E* are zero. It is a mistake to consider an quantum particle as solely a particle. But the carrier wave of the particle is extended in space over a wide volume and is affected by any number of magnetic field lines well away from the subatomic particles location. This interaction between the carrier wave and the magnetic field causes the behavior of the subatomic particle to be effected remotely via induced probations it its carrier waves. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:21 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net>wrote: > Key to understanding QM interactions not only involves harmonic > relationships, but also phase relationships and physical > orientations/alignments of the dipole-like oscillations. The fact that > tunneling probability is a function of mag-fld is no surprise here… the > mag-fld serves to bring things into a better alignment, which increases the > likelihood of ‘tunneling’. The fact that unusual phenomena like tunneling > and anomalous branching ratios are so rare, is because normal BULK matter > is a very complex 3D matrix of oscillators, which, at any temperature above > 0K, are only in ‘sync’ for infinitesimally short time periods and only in > very small areas. The individual oscillators WANT to be at their > fundamental frequencies, but quanta of heat energy are being absorbed and > emitted constantly, so none of your neighboring atoms/electrons are ever in > sync with yours. > > -mark > > > > *From:* Axil Axil [mailto:janap...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:57 PM > *To:* vortex-l > *Subject:* [Vo]:Breakthrough paper on the Aharonov-Bohm effect published > > > > > http://phys.org/news/2014-05-breakthrough-paper-aharonov-bohm-effect-published.html#nRlv > > > > *Breakthrough paper on the Aharonov-Bohm effect published* > > > > > > *tunneling is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field present.* >
