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Boston studies in the philosophy of science

Cause and Effect in the Pilot-Wave Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Harvey R. Brown, Andrew Elby, Robert Weingard

Published Jan 1, 1996• 32 citations
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10.1007/978-94-015-8715-0_21

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Quantum mechanics has lacked a widely recognized interpretation since its birth. Many interpretations are under consideration because they are difficult to disprove experimentally. In this paper, we show that the results of a recent experiment go against one of them: the pilot-wave interpretation. This is because the key assumption of this interpretation, particle locality, contradicts the assumption of wave function nonlocality on which the experiment is founded. This is a rare example of a quantum model and an experiment not indifferent to the interpretation of quantum mechanics.