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

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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.