Relativistic pilot-wave theories as the rational completion of quantum mechanics and relativity
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Publication Date:
2025
Short description:
(2025). Relativistic pilot-wave theories as the rational completion of quantum mechanics and relativity . Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/316885
abstract:
Einstein thought that quantum mechanics was incomplete because it was nonlocal. In this paper I argue
instead that quantum theory is incomplete, even if it is nonlocal, and that relativity is incomplete because
its minimal spatiotemporal structure cannot naturally accommodate such nonlocality. So, I show that
relativistic pilot-wave theories are the rational completion of quantum mechanics as well as relativity: they
provide a spatiotemporal ontology of particles, as well as a spatiotemporal structure able to explain
quantum correlations.
instead that quantum theory is incomplete, even if it is nonlocal, and that relativity is incomplete because
its minimal spatiotemporal structure cannot naturally accommodate such nonlocality. So, I show that
relativistic pilot-wave theories are the rational completion of quantum mechanics as well as relativity: they
provide a spatiotemporal ontology of particles, as well as a spatiotemporal structure able to explain
quantum correlations.
Iris type:
1.2.01 Contributi in volume (Capitoli o Saggi) - Book Chapters/Essays
List of contributors:
Allori, Valia
Book title:
Guiding Waves in Quantum Mechanics: One Hundred Years of de Broglie-Bohm Pilot-Wave Theory