Currently, I am writing a story called Zero Point. Some of the science in the story is based on the pilot-wave theory that Louis de Broglie first proposed in the 1920s, when he also proposed that particles had wave-like features. Basically, the theory says that a particle such as an electron is associated with a wave (pilot) which influences its physical properties, such as momentum. Since each particle has a guiding wave then experiments such as the famous double-slit experiment of quantum mechanics can be explained (that is, an interference pattern is generated by particles traveling through two closely spaced slits, not what would be expected classically.
Now, there is a lot of development in a physics discipline called Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs which are macro-experiments that show quantum-like behaviors. I'll let John Bush of MIT, who is a leading researcher in the field explain it:
In 2005, Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort discovered that droplets walking on a vibrating fluid bath exhibit features previously thought to be peculiar to the quantum realm. Since 2010, this hydrodynamic system has been the focus of my group’s research. Particular attention has been given to identifying new hydrodynamic quantum analogs in the laboratory, and to rationalizing the emergent quantum-like behaviour theoretically. We have also developed and explored theoretically a broader class of pilot-wave systems that provide a mathematical bridge between the walking-droplet system and the dynamics proposed by Louis de Broglie and others for the microscopic, quantum realm. For an overview, I suggest reading the reviews on the subject, especially the most recent one, Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs, as appeared in 2020 in Reviews of Progress in Physics.
(From his website https://thales.mit.edu/bush/index.php/4801-2/)
So, what am I doing with pilot-waves in the story?
I am hypothesizing that they can be used for a new form of communication, which (according to the AI summary of the research paper Louis de Broglie Realistic Research Program and the experimental detection of Quantum Waves) suggest that subquantum wave telecommunication could revolutionize how information is transmitted and processed, offering significant benefits in terms of speed, reliability, and efficiency.
I'm also mixing in a little physics from a field called Quadratic Gravity which is an extension of General Relativity that may allow it to be quantized. In particular there arises more particles/fields, one of which, could be a source of energy, I call it the Stelle-field, after the physicist Kellogg Stelle who first proposed the theory. One particle is infamous for causing spacetime to GAIN energy when it is created and was called a ghost particle originally because it couldn't exist. Now, years later it seems the particle might not be so bad, and it stays well-behaved at larger scales. And it could help explain cosmic inflation AND the relative weakness of gravity when compared to the other forces, not bad for a particle no one wanted.
Anyway, I use the Stelle-field as an energy source and a transportation medium by coupling the atoms of an object to the field in a kind of resonance effect. I use paramagnetism as an analogy where the atoms, which usually show no magnetism, have a slight magnetic orientation in an external magnetic field. So, the atoms of an object at resonance with the Stelle-field gain a momentum.
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