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I thought pilot wave theory was disproved recently? https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-experiment-dooms-pilot-wave-alternative-to-quantum-weirdness-20181011
by ajuc 7y ago
I thought pilot wave theory was disproved recently?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-experiment-dooms-pilot-wave-alternative-to-quantum-weirdness-20181011/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-experiment-dooms-pilot...
- szemet 7y agoJust skimmed over, but this is only about the oil droplets experiment - which would have been a great macroscopic model/demonstration of pilot wave theory. If it fails the double slit experiment - then simply it is not a good macroscopic model/demonstration of the Broglie-Bohm quantum interpretation. But AFAIK Broglie-Bohm has been already proven to be equivalent to all the other popular quantum interpretations (if you give up locality), so it has not been falsified at all (and actually can't be - as it gives the same experimental forecasts as the other theories)
- gdubs 7y agoThis looks like a great read — thanks! Regardless, the book mentioned above is still thought-provoking, and an interesting history of quantum mechanics.