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You (and everyone who replied you so far) misunderstood: if you read the article, you'll see that this is not the issue.

This is about the reality of trajectories built-into the pilot wave theory (such a concept which doesn't even exist in "text-book" interpretation of quantum mechanics, which says particles don't have positions or trajectories until you measure them, upon which they "decide" their position through an "artificial" process called wavefunction collapse; notably, as of now, wavefunction collapse and the reality of wavefunction is still a subject of debate).

There was a paper "Surrealistic Bohm Trajectories" which argued that trajectories predicted by pilot wave theory don't make any sense as real trajectories in general, hence these "trajectories" cannot correspond to real trajectories. A careful analysis which properly takes the nonlocality into account shows the flaw in their argument (arXiv:quant-ph/0010020, omitted in the text linked), and this is the corresponding experiment which confirms their analysis (using weak measurements on a pair of entangled photons to sketch "average" trajectories in a WWM setup).

If you like, this is about the interpretation of a concept within an interpretation.

While I agree that the title is a little bit flashy, experimental confirmation for the reality of Bohmian trajectories is an important topic.



Surrealistic Bohm Trajectories is referenced in the article, as the ESSW paper, after the authors. Here is the PDF link: http://www.degruyter.com/dg/viewarticle.fullcontentlink:pdfe...


No, I meant arXiv:quant-ph/0010020




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