Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Wavicles, anyone?

… Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time? | Science | WIRED. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In its current, immature state, the pilot-wave formulation of quantum mechanics only describes simple interactions between matter and electromagnetic fields, according toDavid Wallace, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford in England, and cannot even capture the physics of an ordinary light bulb. “It is not by itself capable of representing very much physics,” Wallace said. “In my own view, this is the most severe problem for the theory, though, to be fair, it remains an active research area.”

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