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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Non-Relativistic Regime of Bomi Mechanics

My halfway informed feeling is that Bomi mechanics looks quite natural in the non-relativistic regime. And it's a little bit more of a challenge to see how we should just do quantum field theory in that picture. Standard quantum field theory has been plagued by mathematical problems and run away singularities, numbers you try to calculate, and they all come out infinity. It's not as if it's all conceptual lightness and clarity in the so-called standard picture.

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