My undergraduate adviser John Bush is publishing some interesting ideas based on observations of bouncing droplets
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/09/fluid-mechanics-suggests-alternative-quantum-orthodoxy?et_cid=4150687&et_rid=210305915&type=cta
also see the review article
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-fluid-010814-014506
which concludes with a doozy of a sentence: "Finally, as concerns my alignment vis-a-vis quantum interpretations, I remain steadfastly agnostic; however, if forced to choose, I would be inclined to back, by virtue of its inclusivity, the logical extension of the Many-Worlds interpretation (Everett 1957), the Many-Many-Worlds interpretation, according to which each quantum interpretation is realized in some edition of the multimultiverse, and there is even one world in which there is only one world, a world in which quantum statistics are underlaid by chaotic pilot-wave dynamics, there is no philosophical schism between large and small, and beables be."