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In today's news:
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110603/full/news.2011.346.html

 

[pandemonium]

Awesome advancement for quantum mechanics. Hmm, 3 months since posted and still no further word on peer acceptance? The dynamic Casimir effect is very intriguing and I think will be a basis for understanding vacuums in years to come.

 

[William Gaatjes]

IMHO, the next great step will be that although we perceive the speed of light as the limit for everything in our matter like universe, What lies beneath goes a whole lot faster. But it will take time. I would not be surprised if Louis de Broglie was right after all. I am sure it is something similar as mixing frequencies. We live in a universe that acts as a band pass filter. What is in it, we can directly and indirectly observe. Fluctuations, what are these really ? Not the end of the road. Not at all.

"The fundamental idea of [my 1924 thesis] was the following: The fact that, following Einstein's introduction of photons in light waves, one knew that light contains particles which are concentrations of energy incorporated into the wave, suggests that all particles, like the electron, must be transported by a wave into which it is incorporated... My essential idea was to extend to all particles the coexistence of waves and particles discovered by Einstein in 1905 in the case of light and photons." "With every particle of matter with mass m and velocity v a real wave must be 'associated'", related to the momentum by the equation:

This theory set the basis of wave mechanics. It was supported by Einstein, confirmed by the electron diffraction experiments of Davisson and Germer, and generalized by the work of Schrödinger.

However, this generalization was statistical and was not approved of by de Broglie, who said "that the particle must be the seat of an internal periodic movement and that it must move in a wave in order to remain in phase with it was ignored by the actual physicists [who are] wrong to consider a wave propagation without localization of the particle, which was quite contrary to my original ideas."

From a philosophical viewpoint, this theory of matter-waves has contributed greatly to the ruin of the atomism of the past. Originally, de Broglie thought that a real wave (i.e., having a direct physical interpretation) was associated with particles. In fact, the wave aspect of matter was formalized by a wavefunction defined by the Schrödinger equation, which is a pure mathematical entity having a probabilistic interpretation, without the support of real physical elements. This wavefunction gives an appearance of wave behavior to matter, without making real physical waves appear. However, until the end of his life de Broglie returned to a direct and real physical interpretation of matter-waves, following the work of David Bohm. The de Broglie-Bohm theory is today the only interpretation giving real status to matter-waves and representing the predictions of quantum theory. But, since it has some problems and doesn't go further in its predictions than the Copenhagen interpretation, it is little recognized by the scientific community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Broglie

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave

 

[William Gaatjes]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave

Yes, great stuff is it not ?

Faraday waves are very interesting. Because with faraday waves, all sort of geometric shapes can be created.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_wave
This is one simple example of faraday waves in cornflour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkjP5d6ulc
That does seem similar to some computer simulations about quantum fluctuations and virtual particles does it not ? Of course, this does not mean anything at the moment without any proof.

IIRC, de Broglie waves are the quantum mechanical equivalent of Faraday waves. And if i am not mistaken, in a 3D space perspective. Thus it would be quite easy to explain for atom lattices as well since these are repetitive structures. And Faraday waves and de Broglie waves allow for repetitive structures if i understand it correctly.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_wave

EDIT:
Forgot to add one thing, Imagine in the corn starch video that the (through the straw air blowing created )holes are particles... They would remain stable and have repulsive and attractive behavior. Now does that not sound familiar ?
But where is the proof...