RE: Pilot Wave Theory
True, we won't know where "it" is and what "its" velocity is at the same time ...
Actually, it's position and momentum that we cannot know at the same time. What's interesting, if you were to force the situation, using the Pauli exclusion principle, the information will still be hidden.
If you squeeze neutrons enough, so that they begin to violate Pauli exclusion (try to get two neutrons to occupy the same space at the same time), they get so close to one another that you can infer the position of one and the momentum of the other, thereby violate Heisenberg uncertainty, guess what happens?
Instead of violating Pauli or Heisenberg, an event horizon forms, which hides the result. Perhaps you could get the information if you yourself enter the event horizon. But you wouldn't be able to tell anyone.
Thanks, but I don't "do" that small, and I kinda like to get back out of whatever I squeeze into so I can tell the world about it.
Whatever lives way down there, it's NOT a particle, and it's NOT a wave. It only behaves like a particle when we some times look then behaves like a wave at other times.
:)
Joe
What I'm describing is a neutron star, so it's large enough to investigate. This is because gravity is the only force that comes close to violating the Pauli exclusion principle for neutrons.
Okay, I thought you were talking about a micro-miniature black hole. My bad.