>Another alternative is to suppose there are hidden factors that we can’t quite access. David Bohm influentially suggested that a particle is accompanied by a “pilot wave” that guides its trajectory through the double-slit experiment and creates the interference pattern. Most physicists will tell you that this kind of “hidden variable” interpretation of quantum theory has been ruled out by a combination of experimental results and mathematical proofs.
This isn't the problem with Bohmian mechanics at all. Bohmian mechanics "solves" the EPR experiment by letting hidden variables jump around across spacelike separations. This cannot be disproven by Bell tests.
The problem with Bohmian mechanics (which I have always heard called "Bohmian mechanics", and not "pilot-wave theory") is that it isn't truly relativistic; it doesn't happen in Minkowski space and nobody has to my knowledge extended it to Minkowski space in a way that is widely considered acceptable. If the author likes Bohm's approach so much, he should learn about the ongoing developments:
This isn't the problem with Bohmian mechanics at all. Bohmian mechanics "solves" the EPR experiment by letting hidden variables jump around across spacelike separations. This cannot be disproven by Bell tests.
The problem with Bohmian mechanics (which I have always heard called "Bohmian mechanics", and not "pilot-wave theory") is that it isn't truly relativistic; it doesn't happen in Minkowski space and nobody has to my knowledge extended it to Minkowski space in a way that is widely considered acceptable. If the author likes Bohm's approach so much, he should learn about the ongoing developments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de_Broglie-Bohm_theory#Relativi...