{"id":938,"date":"2015-02-26T11:24:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwd-yvesgingras.uqam.ca\/uncategorized\/macroscopic-oil-droplets-mimicking-quantum-behaviour-how-far-can-we-push-an-analogy\/"},"modified":"2015-02-26T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:24:44","slug":"macroscopic-oil-droplets-mimicking-quantum-behaviour-how-far-can-we-push-an-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yvesgingras.uqam.ca\/en\/publications\/macroscopic-oil-droplets-mimicking-quantum-behaviour-how-far-can-we-push-an-analogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Macroscopic Oil Droplets Mimicking Quantum Behaviour: How Far Can We Push an Analogy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">R\u00e9f\u00e9rence<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Vervoort, L. et Gingras, Y. (2015). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02698595.2015.1179040\">Macroscopic Oil Droplets Mimicking Quantum Behaviour: How Far Can We Push an Analogy?<\/a>. <em>International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 29<\/em>(3), 271-294,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We describe a series of experimental analogies between fluid mechanics and quantum mechanics recently discovered by a team of physicists. These analogies arise in droplet systems guided by a surface (or pilot) wave. We argue that these experimental facts put ancient theoretical work by Madelung on the analogy between fluid and quantum mechanics into new light. After re-deriving Madelung\u2019s result starting from two basic fluid mechanical equations (the Navier\u2013Stokes equation and the continuity equation), we discuss the relation with the de Broglie\u2013Bohm theory. This allows to make a direct link with the droplet experiments. It is argued that the fluid mechanical interpretation of quantum mechanics, if it can be extended to the general\u00a0<em>N<\/em>-particle case, would have a considerable advantage over the Bohm interpretation: it could rid Bohm\u2019s theory of its non-local character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vervoort, L. et Gingras, Y. (2015). Macroscopic Oil Droplets Mimicking Quantum Behaviour: How Far Can We Push an Analogy?. 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