Cosmology and the pilot wave interpretation of quantum mechanics

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Jul 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984phla..103..188t&link_type=abstract

Physics Letters A, Volume 103, Issue 4, p. 188-192.

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Bell has recently revived the pilot wave interpretation of de Broglie and Bohm as a possible scheme for interpreting wave functions in quantum cosmology. I argue that the pilot wave interpretation cannot be applied consistently to systems whose wave functions split into macroscopically distinguishable states. At some stage the pilot wave interpretation must either tacitly invoke wave function reduction in the same manner as the Copenhagen interpretation, or else abandon locality by requiring physical particles to move faster than light. Consequently, the many-worlds interpretation is the only known realist interpretation of the quantum mechanical formalism which can be extended to quantum cosmology.

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