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...I thought the article implied the opposite -- against the pilot wave theory. Can someone weigh in and put this article in the context of the pilot wave theo
by rrauenza 10y ago
...I thought the article implied the opposite -- against the pilot wave theory.
Can someone weigh in and put this article in the context of the pilot wave theory?
(Not a physicist!)
- z92 10y agoIt's against pilot wave theory. Pilot wave theory is another form of hidden variable theory, that has been proved wrong again and again. Source: check wikipedia.
- randomguy1254 10y agoThat's not quite accurate. Local hidden variable theories have been proven wrong, but pilot wave theory is a nonlocal hidden variable theory. Bell himself was a proponent of pilot wave theory.
- dangirsh 10y agoPilot wave theory requires non-local hidden variables. Only local hidden variable theories have been shown to be impossible. In non-relativistic situations, Bohemian mechanics (pilot wave theory) makes the same predictions as more mainstream interpretations of QM.
- Filligree 10y agoWell, sort of. Pilot wave theory, if simulated, still requires you to run all the same calculations as (say) the Many-Worlds interpretation, in order to know what the pilot wave is doing. In fact, the pilot wave will still contain everything that MWI does: Multiple timelines, vast assemblies of nearly-independent universes, Earths beyond counting, etc etc. What PWT does is add in some nearly-epiphenomenal particles, and declare that only these count; that any observer described by the pilot wave is a philosophical zombie. I have objections to this concept. :P