Pilot wave theory, Bohmian metaphysics, and the ...（导波理论,Bohmian形而上学,）.pdf

Pilot wave theory, Bohmian metaphysics, and the foundations of quantum mechanics Lecture 7 Not even wrong. Why does nobody like pilot-wave theory? Mike Towler TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/∼mdt26 and /tti/tti.html mdt26@cam.ac.uk Acknowledgements The material in this lecture is to a large extent a summary of publications by Peter Holland, Antony Valentini, Guido Bacciagaluppi, David Peat, David Bohm, Basil Hiley, Oliver Passon, James Cushing, David Peat, Christopher Norris, H. Nikolic, David Deutsch and the Daily Telegraph. Bacciagaluppi and Valentini’s book on the history of the Solvay conference was a particularly vauable resource. Other sources used and many other interesting papers are listed on the course web page: www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/∼mdt26/pilot waves.html MDT Life on Mars Today we are apt to forget that - not so very long ago - disagreeing with Bohr on quantum foundational issues, or indeed just writing about the subject in general, was professionally equivalent to having a cuckoo surgically attached to the centre of one’s forehead via a small spring. Here, for example, we encounter the RMP Editor feeling the need to add a remark on editorial policy before publishing Prof. Ballentine’s (hardly very controversial) paper on the statistical interpretation, concluding with what seems very like a threat. One need hardly be surprised at Bohm’s reception seventeen years earlier.. An intimidating atmosphere.. “The idea of an objective real world whose smallest parts exist objectively in the same sense as stones or trees ex