Editing Pilot wave theory (section)

{{Short description|One interpretation of quantum mechanics}}
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[[File:ExperimentCouder-Young.png|thumbnail|upright=1.2|Couder's disputed<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-experiment-dooms-pilot-wave-alternative-to-quantum-weirdness-20181011/ |title=Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness |last=Wolchover |first=Natalie |date=11 October 2018 |publisher=Quanta Magazine |access-date=17 October 2018 |quote=Oil droplets guided by “pilot waves” have failed to reproduce the results of the quantum double-slit experiment}}</ref>
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{{cite journal |last1=Couder |first1=Y. |last2=Boudaoud |first2=A. |last3=Protière |first3=S. |last4=Moukhtar |first4=J. |last5=Fort |first5=E. |year=2010 |title=Walking droplets: a form of wave–particle duality at macroscopic level? |url=http://www.df.uba.ar/users/dasso/fis4_2do_cuat_2010/walker.pdf |journal=[[Europhysics News]] |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=14–18 |bibcode=2010ENews..41a..14C |doi=10.1051/epn/2010101|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="droplets">{{cite AV media |date=13 July 2011 |title=How Does The Universe Work?  |chapter=Yves Couder experiments explains Wave/Particle Duality via silicon droplets |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9yWv5dqSKk  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/W9yWv5dqSKk |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|work=[[Through the Wormhole]] |at=Season 2, Episode 6, 15min 23s}}{{cbignore}}</ref> purportedly "materializing" the ''pilot wave'' model.]]
In [[theoretical physics]], the '''pilot wave theory''', also known as '''Bohmian mechanics''', was the first known example of a [[hidden-variable theory]], presented by [[Louis de Broglie]] in 1927. Its more modern version, the [[de Broglie–Bohm theory]], interprets [[quantum mechanics]] as a [[deterministic]] theory, and avoids issues such as [[wave function collapse]], and the paradox of [[Schrödinger's cat]] by being inherently [[Quantum nonlocality|nonlocal]].

The de Broglie–Bohm pilot wave theory is one of several [[Interpretations of quantum mechanics|interpretations of (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics]].