Into The Impossible: Episode 25 - Quantum Theory and the book "What Is Real?" by Adam Becker 

This is a very important discussion for me and my research and I am currently reading Adam's book.

Bohm's theory was the best defense according to Einstein, but Einstein did not say Bohm's Theory was complete either. Moreover, there is no relativistic extension (i.e. Dirac Equations) for Bohm's Theory. So while it may reproduce QM, it is a non-relativistic approximation which is less than Dirac Equations. Morover, it leaves us in the same predicament when it comes to GR as QM. So while it may be "philosphically" more appealing, practically Bohm's theory remains incomplete and even more so than QM. And we can crticize Bohr for being less than lucid in his explanations and likewise critize Von Neuman for being mistaken, but we now have Bell's therom that tells us that Bohr was (and Von Neuman) were right in that hidden variables are not the answer to EPR just as they said. Having said that, the way out will come from people like you who are grappling with natural philosphy, i.e., physics as it was meant to be. Not the engineer's answer: "shutup and calculate." Yes, the engineers give us great technology using QM to optimize and manufacutre incredible societal advances. They are not doing physics, however.

@54:01 Becker: "The strangest feature of Bohm's theory is that the position of one far-distant particle can affect the pilot wave of another particle instantaneously, faster than the speed of light." This claim is a mischaracterization of Bohmian Mechanics. In BM, pilot waves guide the movements of particles. However, there is no mechanism by which a particle's position can influence the behavior of a pilot wave, instantaneously or otherwise. The pilot wave that guides the motion of entangled particles is not "far distant" (i.e. separated by some physical distance), it is intrinsically associated at all times with the particles it guides. Pilot waves do not propagate across physical space-time, they manifest solely in Configuation Space, the complex-valued domain of potentially limitless numbers of dimensions where the quantum wave-function is defined. Pilot waves are influenced not by particle interactions in physical space-time, but instead by the evolution of the quantum wave-function in accordance with the Schrodinger Equation. As ALL interpretations of quantum mechanics agree, the evolution of the quantum wave-function is inherently non-local and deterministic, and consequently, so is Bohmian Mechanics. However, the positions where particles are observed in relativistic space-time are probabilistic in nature, rather than deterministic, as predicted by Born's Rule, which in Bohmian Mechanics is derived from its concept of quantum equilibrium.

This was wonderful. Thank you. I just finished the book. This was an excellent companion for understanding it.

If you like the talk and haven't read the book then likely reading it will change you.

If entanglement can only occur through the local interaction of the particles, how can one then claim that the interaction gives them a specific correlation, and then use that to claim locality doesn't exist. What the difference between a measurement being taken immediately after said interaction or taking it with some time delay?

Was the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Physics and "shut up and calculate" practice in the Physics community a case of "Politicized" science which held us back from coming up with better theory and understanding of quantum physics? IMO it was. If it was, let us not make that mistake again please.

...he was heard when someone was listening, no-one listened to his crazy ideas, this is so full of Ron's ire.

That which is irreplaceable

That was really interesting talk, thanks, and I must add that I agree wholeheartedly with your cocnclusion.

Very interesting talk. Thank you.

My mother in law is real.

I wish they’d discussed Bohmian mechanics in a bit more detail, specifically the supposed ad Hoc pilot wave that guides particles. I mean, as far as I know, there’s no evidence for a separate pilot wave whatsoever, it requires no energy, its strength doesn’t diminish with distance, doesn’t feel the effect of other known forces, etc. Other than that, it’s great. ;)