pilot wave

Example Sentences

• "To do their job, the pilot waves must travel to the far slit and return in time to influence the electron's path depending on whether that slit is open."
• "The theory of the pilot wave is a proposal in order to undersand the basic ontology of the microworld as composed of two different entities given simultaneously: a wave and a particle."
• "One of the functions of the pilot wave is to convey information, instantaneously, to the particle concerning any changes which are encountered by the pilot wave."
• "The real component of the Schrödinger equation describes the behaviour of the particle (it acts as a pilot wave for the particle), while the imaginary component describes the behaviour of the quantum potential."
• "Pilot waves and projections from the implicate order to the explicate order of sense-perceptible phenomena are inscrutable to our everyday consiousness, at least directly."
• "Speaking in general terms, my hypothesis is that the pilot wave of my consciousness directs my consciousness through configuration space in the sense of actualizing these possibilities; e.g. a possible hue becomes an actual content of my visual awareness by virtue of being actualized by a mental wave-form, in particular, an intentional act. More exactly, as we shall see below, it is the more complex wave-form produced by the entaglement of my brain's pilot wave with the pilot wave of my consciousness that simultaneously actualizes the sensory quale and a set of nerve cell firings."