Why Bohm's Quantum Theory?
arXiv:quant-ph/9812059 · doi:10.1023/A:1021669308832
Abstract
This is a brief reply to Goldstein's article on ``Quantum Theory Without Observers'' in Physics Today. It is pointed out that Bohm's pilot wave theory is successful only because it keeps Schrödinger's (exact) wave mechanics unchanged, while the rest of it is observationally meaningless and solely based on classical prejudice.
5 pages, LaTeX. Several comments added. (To be published in Foundations of Physics Letters)
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