Re:Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory?
by bmh100 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @02:27AM
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Could this connection to the rest of the universe be considered conceptually similar to a form of entanglement?
Re:Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory?
by naasking on Saturday December 17, 2016 @10:10AM
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Sort of. There is no real entanglement in this formalism, not in the way it's typically portrayed. I suppose you could say entanglement is there all the time. Macroscopic observation of entanglement via non-local correlations is really just a context in which we make the non-local connection observable.
That's pilot wave theory, where this term is sometimes called the "quantum potential" and is governed by Schroedinger's equation. As you can see, this extra term goes to zero when quantum effects become negligible and we recover classical mechanics straight away. The difficulty is the obvious nonlocality and what that means for special relativity.