Re: Bohm interpretation

From: backdoorstudent (backdoorstudent_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: 28 Jul 2004 04:58:40 -0400

thoovler@excite.com (Igor) wrote in message news:
> That's interesting. Wasn't it deBroglie that came up with the pilot
> wave theory in the first place?

Yes. Curiously, both Einstein and Bohr thought of the idea as well
(even before deBroglie, I think), but did not work out any details.
And then Bohr went on to give up believing in objective reality :)

> I think he sometimes referred to it
> as the theory of double solution, because he basically interpreted one
> solution as the quantum probability wave, whereas the other one was a
> more physical notion of a guiding or "pilot" wave that actually told
> the particles how to move. And additionally, wasn't deBroglie using
> the relativistic Klein-Gordon equation (or perhaps the Dirac) to
> demonstrate his points?

I'm not sure, but if so I can see why Bohm's version became more
popular.

> I remember reading some of his early papers
> on the subject, but it has been a while now. I do know that Bohm
> began referring to the pilot wave model in later papers, but I don't
> recall him mentioning it in his first papers on hidden variables from
> 1952.

I think Bohm's name has stuck to it because his presentation was so
straight-forward. It's just a quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equation from
which you can easily get Schrodinger's eq., yet it's free of
metaphysical duality and ambiguous division of the world into observed
and unobserved.

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