Abstract
Matching quantum behaviour with our ordinary macroscopic experience is commonly regarded to be impossible. The difficulty to relate the quantum world to common sense experience stems partly from the fact that classical physics was not sufficiently advanced to deal with macroscopic particle-wave systems at the birth of quantum mechanics. Physicists therefore lacked references to compare quantum with analogous macroscopic behaviour. After consideration of some recent experiments with droplets steered by waves, we examine possibilities to give some intuitive meaning to the rules governing the quantum world.
Arjen Dijksman