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strangequark

What is your preferred formulation of quantum mechanics and why do you prefer it over others?

strangequark

No one?

Summum_Malum

I think you are the only one with a QM-fetish in here =) ..

strangequark

Come on...surely you must have some (predictable) view considering that you site your location as Copenhagen, Denmark.

Summum_Malum

Hehe.. Yes well, I guess the Copenhagen interpretation is my preferred formulation, but I don't really know of other...

strangequark

I wouldn't know how much Europeans are introduced to the Pilot Wave interpretation but I may guess it is more well known there than in the US?

Summum_Malum

Could you elaborate on what the Pilot Wave interpretation is? I've never had a de facto course on QM, only learned some basic stuff through other courses, and from a project I did some years ago, that dealt with whether physics could ever provide a true ontology ..

strangequark

Louis de Broglie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Broglie) made it up. He was French, hence my guess.

strangequark

Thank you for the reference. I do not know much about pilot wave theory but I've read briefly about it before in just 3 books...another will be a good addition.