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This is as good a description of the ontological limitations of pilot wave theory as any, but many of the criticisms apply to almost literally any interpretatio
by vincent-toups 7y ago
This is as good a description of the ontological limitations of pilot wave theory as any, but many of the criticisms apply to almost literally any interpretation of quantum mechanics whatsoever.
As a physicist with a passing interesting the subject of foundations, its my feeling that what quantum mechanics tells us is that at least one aspect of our classical ontologies is not correct. My personal bet is that its locality which is the problem, but as far as I understand it the question is still wide open.
de Broglie-Bohm merely casts the ontological tensions with classical physics in one particular light, but I'm aware of no interpretation which is free of the tension.
- ncmncm 7y agoI thought that locality had had to be abandoned long ago, at least for entangled particles. Of all the oddities pressed on us by alternative interpretations, non-locality between particles that have once interacted seems least troubling. Or is that not enough?
- vincent-toups 7y agoThere isn't any consensus on what aspects of our classical ontology are the right ones to get rid of. You can preserve local realism if you have superdeterminism, for instance.