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#318 - Physics & Philosophy

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The Schrodinger Equation Isn't Everything

Bell says the wave function is given by Schrodinger's equation is either not everything or it's not right. If it's not everything, then you can allow the wave function to do this, but that doesn't determine whether the cats alive or dead and so on. All of that information is carried in additional variables that have been very badly called hidden variables. They're not at all hidden. That has been realized in the so-called pilot wave theory or bowman mechanics. So that's saying the wave function isn't everything.

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