Re:Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
by matt_kantor on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @10:32PM
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> It's a question to the philosophers, not the scientists.
As discussed upthread, this is all philosophy. The popular interpretations of quantum mechanics are all experimentally equivalent, so we need to use elegance, intuitiveness, troubling-ness, etc to choose between them (and these can be highly personal).
EDIT: After re-reading your comment I think I'm agreeing with you here.
You can also use the `operational non-interpretation', and just use the math to calculate without worrying about what it `means'.
(That's pretty close to the spirit of the Copenhagen interpretation, though.)
It's a question to the philosophers, not the scientists. There is no objective measurement for what "troubling" is.
And if we don't start with any preconceived notions of how things _should_ work, then discovering that they work differently is not particularly troubling.