tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post4573403343643975404..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: Atomic laws are not deterministicRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-79546208963878109672019-01-17T15:04:49.730-08:002019-01-17T15:04:49.730-08:00"Bohmian mechanics cannot be made compatible ..."Bohmian mechanics cannot be made compatible with relativistic causality."<br /><br />Many suggest otherwise. That's why I posted the link. You might have a naive idea of what is meant by nonlocality.MD Coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05342743632013663077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-18949614203363865862019-01-17T14:21:32.087-08:002019-01-17T14:21:32.087-08:00Your title is misleading: "As much as any cla...Your title is misleading: "As much as any classical theory of point particles moving under force fields, then, Bohm's theory is deterministic. Amazingly, he was also able to show that, as long as the statistical distribution of initial positions and velocities of particles are chosen so as to meet a 'quantum equilibrium' condition, his theory is empirically equivalent to standard Copenhagen QM. In one sense this is a philosopher's nightmare: with genuine empirical equivalence as strong as Bohm obtained, it seems experimental evidence can never tell us which description of reality is correct."<br />https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/MD Coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05342743632013663077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-34545043219744979422019-01-17T09:31:51.268-08:002019-01-17T09:31:51.268-08:00Yes, Bohmian mechanics is a deterministic theory t...Yes, Bohmian mechanics is a deterministic theory that predicts indeterminism. That is a minus, not a plus.<br /><br />Bohmian mechanics cannot be made compatible with relativistic causality.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-28963059987236186992019-01-17T09:17:04.485-08:002019-01-17T09:17:04.485-08:00Whether you like Bohmian mechanics or not, it give...Whether you like Bohmian mechanics or not, it gives us a deterministic map of the world and it can be made compatible with relativity: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.08853.pdf<br /><br />Free will has absolutely nothing to do with predictability but choice. A dictionary definition: "the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate." But what is fate or necessity but determinism? Don't get the idea of free will confused with the political or personal idea of freedom. Totally different subject.<br />MD Coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05342743632013663077noreply@blogger.com