aaronsw comments on Open Thread, December 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: aaronsw 01 December 2012 02:36:57PM 0 points [-]

I agree with EY that collapse interpretations of QM are ridiculous but are there any arguments against the Bohm interpretation better than the ones canvassed in the SEP article?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/#o

Comment author: Manfred 02 December 2012 12:19:01AM *  1 point [-]

Conflict with special relativity is the most common decisive reason for rejecting Bohmian mechanics - which is oddly not covered in the SEP article. Bohmian mechanics is nonlocal, which in the context of relativity means time travel paradoxes. When you try to make a relativistic version of it, instead of elegant quantum field theory, you get janky bad stuff.

Comment author: Vaniver 01 December 2012 03:01:32PM -1 points [-]

Not that I know of, but, in my interpretation preference Bohm is only beat by "shut up and calculate," so I may not be the most informed source.