Adam Becker

Like how can particles act like waves and vice versa?

What's going on?

Why does everything seem to have both a particle and a wave nature?

And the answer in this theory, the pilot wave theory, is, oh, that's because there are particles and waves, and every particle has a wave associated with it that determines how it moves.

And so that sounds really simple and really cool.

There are problems, right?

There's problems with everything, right?

Otherwise, there'd be no controversy.

The first issue...

though I hesitate to call it a problem, is remember entanglement?

When things interact, they start sharing a wave.

So when you have two entangled particles, one particle, say that they're entangled and they go flying off in different directions, one of them's way over here and one of them's way over there, right?

Like one of them's in Mississippi and one of them's in Calgary.

Okay.

Then the one in Mississippi, if it moves a little bit, that's going to affect the pilot wave that guides the particle in Calgary.

Instantaneously, immediately.

It happens faster than the speed of light.

So that's weird.

especially because we can prove in the math of the theory that that's what happens, but you can also prove that you can't use it for signaling.

You can't send messages faster than the speed of light this way.