i.e. the "hidden variable" model, which says the particle is in a specific place in a specific time
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but an invisible extra factor moves in to hide it from our view
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and can detect our interactions with it and responds accordingly retroactively (against time's arrow)
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like, in one sense that is in fact more parsimonious than Copenhagen or many worlds' "spookiness"
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but it's unpopular because it grates so much with our intuitions
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Bohm, the lead proponent of hidden variables, is openly religious
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and directly compares the hidden factor to God/fate/karma
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just like with the actual God which direction Occam's razor cuts becomes a faith issue
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a physics professor at my school was in the "Shut up and calculate" school
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rejecting, well, the idea of models - the "reality" of the quantum world is unknowable
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we know only that our world exists and quantum stuff is just experimental effects within it
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and in one sense that's the answer that's most preserving of our intuitions
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in another sense it's by far the most solipsistic or obscurantist or whatever POV
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