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People are so used to thinking in terms of balance among
opposites that they tend to forget the sound of one hand clapping.
While attempting to figure out whether there are hidden variables
in quantum mechanics I encountered the words of Krishnamurti.
David Bohm was banished on account of his affiliation with the
communist party during his student youth, even prohibited from
referencing his own papers in physics, so he escaped to Brazil.
Then began the "explanation" by way of hidden variables, though
slowly attempting to wade through the "Kochen-Specker Theorem"
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kochen-specker/ ) arguing "against
the possibility of interpreting QM in terms of hidden variables." Still,

"The Bohm interpretation is not popular among physicists for
a number of scientific and sociological reasons that would
be fascinating but long to study, but perhaps we can at least
say here it is considered very inelegant by some (it was
considered as `unnecessary superstructure' even by Einstein
who dreamed about a deterministic replacement for the
Copenhagen interpretation)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_interpretation

Nevertheless,

" ...quantum mechanics as it stands might be an incomplete
description of reality. Some physicists maintain that underlying
this level of indeterminacy there is an objective foundation.
Such a theory is called a hidden variable theory. Most believe,
however, that there is no deeper reality in quantum mechanics
- that, indeed, experiments have shown hidden variables to
be incompatible with observations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory


Bell's Theorem states:

"No physical theory of local hidden variables can ever reproduce
all of the predictions of quantum mechanics."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_Theorem



- regards
- jb

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