The French physicist Louis de Broglie introduced the idea of pilot waves back in 1929. He did so in order to get around the bizarre idea that particles can interfere with themselves by going through two openings at the same time. However, he didn’t propose a mechanism or medium for his pilot waves. Instead of an aether, he invoked a mysterious hidden variable.
But if we assume the existence of a dense and highly fluid aether, we get that anything that moves around in this aether must be accompanied by a pilot wave. Just like a boat traversing a lake, a particle cannot move through the aether without disturbing it.
In addition to the double slit experiment, pilot wave theory can be used to explain reflections and refraction. It also explains central aspects of kinetics, like the constant forward progression of time and how energy is transferred between objects.
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