{"id":2024,"date":"2007-12-01T10:33:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T10:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/01\/neutral-bohmian-mechanics\/"},"modified":"2007-12-01T10:33:56","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T10:33:56","slug":"neutral-bohmian-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/01\/neutral-bohmian-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Neutral Bohmian Mechanics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Jonah Goldberg moment&#8211; can anybody recommend a reasonably neutral discussion of Bohm&#8217;s non-local hidden variable version of quantum theory? A little Googling turns up <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/qm-bohm\/\">this encyclopedia article<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/quant-ph\/0408113\">a tutorial dialogue on the arxiv<\/a>, but I&#8217;d like to see a fairly complete treatment of it that doesn&#8217;t go to great lengths to make proponents of other interpretations sound like clueless goobers who are just too dim to perceive the obvious correctness of the Bohmian approach.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t critical by any means&#8211; the hour and a half I&#8217;ve just spent reading these pieces is really more cat-vacuuming than anything else, as I got the information I needed for the passing mention of Bohmian mechanics in Chapter 7 from the first few pages of the first reference I looked at. It&#8217;s just that everything I can find easily reeks of True Believer, and that always irritates me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Jonah Goldberg moment&#8211; can anybody recommend a reasonably neutral discussion of Bohm&#8217;s non-local hidden variable version of quantum theory? A little Googling turns up this encyclopedia article and a tutorial dialogue on the arxiv, but I&#8217;d like to see a fairly complete treatment of it that doesn&#8217;t go to great lengths to make proponents&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/01\/neutral-bohmian-mechanics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neutral Bohmian Mechanics?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}