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View SchemaEinstein's Worries and Actual Physics: Beyond Pilot Waves
| Authors | Partha Ghose |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.07441vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07441 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
Tim Maudlin has argued that the standard formulation of quantum mechanics fails to provide a clear ontology and dynamics and that the de Broglie--Bohm pilot-wave theory offers a better completion of the formalism, more in line with Einstein's concerns. I suggest that while Bohmian mechanics improves on textbook quantum theory, it does not go far enough. In particular, it relies on the ``quantum equilibrium hypothesis'' and accepts explicit nonlocality as fundamental. A deeper completion is available in stochastic mechanics, where the wavefunction and the Born rule emerge from an underlying diffusion process, and in a contextual, category-theoretic semantics in which measurement and EPR--Bell correlations are reinterpreted as features of contextual truth rather than of mysterious dynamics. In this framework, the measurement problem and ``spooky action-at-a-distance'' are dissolved rather than solved. Finally, a dynamics based on Rosen's ``classical Schr\"odinger equation'' provides a continuous passage between quantum and classical regimes, eliminating any sharp Heisenberg cut.
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"abstract": "Tim Maudlin has argued that the standard formulation of quantum mechanics fails to provide a clear ontology and dynamics and that the de Broglie--Bohm pilot-wave theory offers a better completion of the formalism, more in line with Einstein\u0027s concerns. I suggest that while Bohmian mechanics improves on textbook quantum theory, it does not go far enough. In particular, it relies on the ``quantum equilibrium hypothesis\u0027\u0027 and accepts explicit nonlocality as fundamental. A deeper completion is available in stochastic mechanics, where the wavefunction and the Born rule emerge from an underlying diffusion process, and in a contextual, category-theoretic semantics in which measurement and EPR--Bell correlations are reinterpreted as features of contextual truth rather than of mysterious dynamics. In this framework, the measurement problem and ``spooky action-at-a-distance\u0027\u0027 are dissolved rather than solved. Finally, a dynamics based on Rosen\u0027s ``classical Schr\\\"odinger equation\u0027\u0027 provides a continuous passage between quantum and classical regimes, eliminating any sharp Heisenberg cut.",
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