“Why is the pilot-wave picture is ignored? Should it not be taught as an antidote to the prevailing complacency? To show us that vagueness, subjectivity, and indeterminism, are not forced on us by experimental facts, but by deliberate theoretical choice?” -John S. Bell
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Replying to @InertialObservr
“Why is the pilot-wave picture ignored?" Because it's wrong.
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Replying to @VergaraLautaro
How so? The oft-cited arguments of Kochen-Specker and Von-Neuman have been showed by Bell himself himself to be not just incorrect “but foolish” to quote Bell.
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Replying to @VergaraLautaro
I’m not going to pretend like I’m a Bohmian either, but even supposing that somehow pilot wave theory suffered some ontological blow, there was not up to that point any good reason to dismiss it.
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Replying to @VergaraLautaro @InertialObservr
But I'm also a sinner: During my MSc I was interested in trying to understand the double-slit problem from the point of view of paths integral, giving some reality to trajectories that wind around the slits...
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Yea the path integral has a very mysterious and beautiful feel to it
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