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If you accept that all effects have causes, you accept determinism. Also, determinism will be resurrected. Look at Pilot Wave theory. It explains quantum weird
by omalleyt 11y ago
If you accept that all effects have causes, you accept determinism.
Also, determinism will be resurrected. Look at Pilot Wave theory. It explains quantum weirdness with a deterministic worldview, but everyone would prefer to hype voodoo theories.
- FrankenPC 11y agoWell..not really. "But pilot wave theory could still be important, because it has a different conceptual formulation, so if you set out to modify the theory, you get different modifications. In that sense, it is a good new idea. I personally think that you can produce a truncation of pilot-wave which doesn't coincide with ordinary quantum mechanics, but which is mostly the same as quantum mechanics when you are dealing with only a few particles only slightly entangled. In this case, you need the wavefunction to be a complicated function of the hidden-variables (the particle positions) which only obeys the Schrodinger equation approximately. This type of thing is a true modification of quantum mechanics, but I was never 100% sure that it works. I described the idea roughly in my answer to one of 'tHoofts questions on physics stackexchange." Source: http://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-pilot-wave-theory http://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-p...
- omalleyt 11y agoThe predictions of pilot wave theory are the same as any other interpretation of quantum mechanics, and the theory isn't new it's been around 80 years