Further on Pilot-Wave Theories

Details Further on Pilot-Wave Theories Further on Pilot-Wave Theories

2009-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/0910.0344v1

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In [2], a detailed argument is presented on a version of pilot-waves, given by at Theory of Exclusively Local Beables. What the author of [2] considers to be his crucial proposal is described in the title of section 3 as 'complicated, ugly, and highly contrived'. The reason for such a proposal is claimed to be the widespread perception among quantum physicists, according to which 'those sympathetic to the pilot-wave ontology no doubt expected that, for a system of N particles moving in three spatial dimensions, the theoretical description would be of N wave-particle pairs - each pair consisting of a point particle guided in some way by an associated wave propagating in 3-space. But Schroedinger's wave function for such an N-particle system was emphatically not a set of N (interacting) waves, each propagating in 3-space. It was, rather, a single wave propagating in the 3N-dimensional configuration space for the system', [2, p. 5]. In the present paper it is argued that the mentioned widespread expectation need not be seen as being betrayed by what actually happens. In particular, the construction in section 3 of [2] may be avoidable.

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