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quantum_mcts • today at 9:27 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

The whole idea of Bohmian mechanics is to preserve the notion of « classical trajectory » while trying to cover existing experimental evidence for QM. I was a fan of it ant the University - but slowly realised that the strategy seems to be just add the classical-limit consequences of the QM as extra postulates. And even that approach faced larger and larger obstacles - like fermions statistics, the QFT with creation / annihilation of particles, spinor fields requiring Grassmanian « classical trajectories » and the whole thing still requires preferred reference frame - in obvious contradiction with basic SR.

This whole story is very similar to attempts of physics fringe to preserve the notion of « aether » while satisfying the experimental evidence for SR.


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_bobm • today at 9:51 AM

What do you think about the efforts of Hiley and Denis [1], which may suggest that the pilot wave may be a manifestation, a mathematical projection, of a deeper physical process which hierarchically gives way to the pilotwave, particles, like a coordinati9n space.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/16/1/67