2009/05/28 by Michael K. -H. Kiessling, Michael K.-H. Kiessling, Michael K.‐H. Kiessling · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Philosophy and History of Science #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #physics.hist-ph #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10701-009-9327-4
Dedicated to Jeffrey Bub on occasion of his 65th birthday. Accepted for publication in Foundations of Physics. A "slip of pen" in the bibliography has been corrected -- thanks go to Oliver Passon for catching it!
arxiv created 2009/05/28 · openalex publication_date 2009/08/20 · crossref created 2009/08/20 · crossref issued 2009/08/21 · crossref published 2009/08/21 · crossref published-online 2009/08/21 · crossref published-print 2010/04/01 · arxiv updated 2015/05/13 · crossref deposited 2019/05/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/06/08 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Eighty years after de Broglie's, and a little more than half a century after Bohm's seminal papers, the de Broglie--Bohm theory (a.k.a. Bohmian mechanics), which is presumably the simplest theory which explains the orthodox quantum mechanics formalism, has reached an exemplary state of conceptual clarity and mathematical integrity. No other theory of quantum mechanics comes even close. Yet anyone curious enough to walk this road to quantum mechanics is soon being confused by many misleading signposts that have been put up, and not just by its detractors, but unfortunately enough also by some of its proponents. This paper outlines a road map to help navigate ones way.