The Theory of (Exclusively) Local Beables Export

@article{citeulike:5846485, abstract = {It is shown how, starting with the de Broglie - Bohm pilot-wave theory, one can construct a new theory of the sort envisioned by several of QM's founders: a Theory of Exclusively Local Beables (TELB). In particular, the usual quantum mechanical wave function (a function on a high-dimensional configuration space) is not among the beables posited by the new theory. Instead, each particle has an associated ``pilot-wave'' field (living in physical space). A number of additional fields (also fields on physical space) maintain what is described, in ordinary quantum theory, as ``entanglement.'' The theory allows some interesting new perspective on the kind of causation involved in pilot wave theories in general, and provides also a concrete example of an empirically viable quantum theory in which the wave function (on configuration space) plays no fundamental role -- i.e., according to which nothing corresponding to the configuration space wave function need actually exist. To be more precise, what we propose here is not so much a particular theory, but rather a general scheme for constructing (and some talking points in favor of) theories of this type. We thus end with some indications of possibly-fruitful directions for future development of these ideas.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Norsen, Travis}, citeulike-article-id = {5846485}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4553}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.4553}, day = {24}, eprint = {0909.4553}, keywords = {bell, foundation, nonlocality}, month = {Sep}, posted-at = {2009-10-20 14:33:07}, priority = {3}, title = {The Theory of (Exclusively) Local Beables}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4553}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5846485 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5846485 N2 - It is shown how, starting with the de Broglie - Bohm pilot-wave theory, one can construct a new theory of the sort envisioned by several of QM's founders: a Theory of Exclusively Local Beables (TELB). In particular, the usual quantum mechanical wave function (a function on a high-dimensional configuration space) is not among the beables posited by the new theory. Instead, each particle has an associated ``pilot-wave'' field (living in physical space). A number of additional fields (also fields on physical space) maintain what is described, in ordinary quantum theory, as ``entanglement.'' The theory allows some interesting new perspective on the kind of causation involved in pilot wave theories in general, and provides also a concrete example of an empirically viable quantum theory in which the wave function (on configuration space) plays no fundamental role -- i.e., according to which nothing corresponding to the configuration space wave function need actually exist. To be more precise, what we propose here is not so much a particular theory, but rather a general scheme for constructing (and some talking points in favor of) theories of this type. We thus end with some indications of possibly-fruitful directions for future development of these ideas. TI - The Theory of (Exclusively) Local Beables KW - bell KW - foundation KW - nonlocality AU - Norsen, Travis PY - 2009/Sep/24/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4553 ER -