Walking droplets, pilot waves, and word choices

► 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.