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View SchemaWhy isn't every physicist a Bohmian?
| Authors | Oliver Passon |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0412119 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412119 |
Abstract
This note collects, classifies and evaluates common criticism against the de Broglie Bohm theory, including Ockham's razor, asymmetry in the de Broglie Bohm theory, the ``surreal trajectory'' problem, the underdetermination of the de Broglie Bohm theory and the question of relativistic and quantum field theoretical generalizations of the de Broglie Bohm theory. We argue that none of these objections provide a rigorous disproof, they rather highlight that even in science theories can not solely be evaluated based on their empirical confirmation.
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