...I thought the article implied the opposite -- against the pilot wave theory.
Can someone weigh in and put this article in the context of the pilot wave theory?
(Not a physicist!)
Can someone weigh in and put this article in the context of the pilot wave theory?
(Not a physicist!)
Source: check wikipedia.
In non-relativistic situations, Bohemian mechanics (pilot wave theory) makes the same predictions as more mainstream interpretations of QM.
Pilot wave theory, if simulated, still requires you to run all the same calculations as (say) the Many-Worlds interpretation, in order to know what the pilot wave is doing.
In fact, the pilot wave will still contain everything that MWI does: Multiple timelines, vast assemblies of nearly-independent universes, Earths beyond counting, etc etc. What PWT does is add in some nearly-epiphenomenal particles, and declare that only these count; that any observer described by the pilot wave is a philosophical zombie.
I have objections to this concept. :P