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I never understood why other physicists always argued so strongly against QM being the measurable outcomes from a system that was deterministic underneath. Tha
by tehwalrus 12y ago
I never understood why other physicists always argued so strongly against QM being the measurable outcomes from a system that was deterministic underneath.
Thanks for the references, I'll see if I can understand them!
One question - What aether/field do the pilot waves travel in? E? B? something else?
- jostylr 12y agoThe wave function is a function on configuration space, which in non-relativistic QM in our 3-space, is a 3N dimensional space. While a cork on an ocean is an appropriate analogy, it breaks down in that it is higher dimensional and there is no "water" that the wave is traveling in. It is similar to how E and B travel through physical space, but not in any particular medium in that space.
- tehwalrus 12y agoYup, makes sense, like statistical mechanics' Energy function in configuration space. Thank you!