Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference
I was thinking about the double-slit problem the other day, and was trying to make connections to any other phenomenon that exists in the natural world and I think I came up with one.<p>In conditional probability theory, there exists something called the boy or girl paradox. The paradox shows that the likelihood of an event can be drastically affected by <i>how you know</i> even seemingly innocuous information. I think that observation of the atoms passing through the slit is affecting the search space for the other atoms in such a way that we currently do not understand. This observation while seemingly innocuous has a drastic affect on the distribution which would explain why we see such confounding results. It follows the same logic as this other naturally occurring phenomenon so I think its an avenue at least worth exploring.<p>An example of the paradox would be if I told you that my neighbor has 2 children and at least one of them is a boy. If I asked you what the probability that their other child is a girl, normally the result would be 2 / 3, but if I know one child is a boy because I spot him in front of a tree then the odds his other child is a girl drops to 1 / 2.<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl_paradox" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl_paradox</a>