In 2019, theorists considered the behavior of a wavepacket not merely dropped, but actively launched through a disordered medium with some initial nonzero momentum, predicting that the wavepacket's center of mass would asymptotically return to the origin at long times — the quantum boomerang effect. Shortly after, quantum simulation experiments in cold atom settings confirmed this prediction by simulating the quantum kicked rotor, a model that maps to the Anderson model of disordered lattices.