The "Unromantic Pictures" of Quantum Theory
arXiv:quant-ph/0607124 · doi:10.1088/1751-8113/40/12/S22
Abstract
I am concerned with two views of quantum mechanics that John S. Bell called ``unromantic'': spontaneous wave function collapse and Bohmian mechanics. I discuss some of their merits and report about recent progress concerning extensions to quantum field theory and relativity. In the last section, I speculate about an extension of Bohmian mechanics to quantum gravity.
37 pages LaTeX, no figures; written for special volume of J. Phys. A in honor of G.C. Ghirardi
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