PIRSA:09090086 Conference Quantum Foundations

DOI10.48660/09090086

Conference/School: PIAF 09' New Perspectives on the Quantum State

Norsen, T. (2009). A Pilot Wave(s) Theory of Exclusively Local Beables. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/09090086

Norsen, Travis. A Pilot Wave(s) Theory of Exclusively Local Beables. Perimeter Institute, Sep. 28, 2009, https://pirsa.org/09090086 

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  doi = {10.48660/09090086},
  url = {https://pirsa.org/09090086},
  author = {Norsen, Travis},
  keywords = {Quantum Foundations},
  language = {en},
  title = {A Pilot Wave(s) Theory of Exclusively Local Beables},
  publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
  year = {2009},
  month = {sep},
  note = {PIRSA:09090086 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
}

Abstract

After reframing the question of the status of the quantum state in terms of J.S. Bell's "beables", I will sketch out a new theory which -- though nonlocal in the sense required by Bell's theorem -- posits exclusively local beables. This is a theory, in particular, in which the quantum mechanical wave function plays no role whatsoever -- i.e., a theory according to which nothing corresponding to the wave function actually exists. It provides, therefore, a concrete example of how the wave function might be regarded as (at best) "epistemic".

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