Walking droplets, pilot waves, and word choices
DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.3122
► Bush replies: I appreciate Jeffery Winkler’s opinion , but it has yet to be proven that dynamic nonlocality of the form exhibited by the walking droplets cannot give rise to a feature analogous to quantum nonlocality, that memory cannot account for entanglement. A proof, rather than an assertion, on this matter would be most welcome.
I feel obliged to point out to Leslie Kerby that in my opening paragraph, I was appealing not to my male readership but rather to the careful reader. The cantankerous queen mother was a metaphor for the field of fluid mechanics, not women in science. She was, moreover, cast as the heroine.
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John W. M. Bush. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
