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The pilot-wave dynamics of walking droplets

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The pilot-wave dynamics of walking droplets

A short MIT Math Lab video showing millimetric droplets bouncing and walking across a vibrating fluid bath, guided by their own pilot waves. These droplets show diffraction, tunneling and quantized orbits, which were once thought to belong only to quantum systems.

Cited in pilot-wave theory threads as a vivid visualization of how quantum-like behavior can arise in a classical system.

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