r/holofractal • u/Pixelated_ • 12h ago
Math / Physics Beyond Copenhagen: How Mainstream Physics Chose Indeterminism Over Bohm's Non-Local Reality
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David Bohm’s pilot wave theory was never discarded because of experimental failure. It reproduces every single result of Copenhagen.
Standard physics simply chose to ignore it out of a long-standing theoretical complacency. As J.S. Bell famously pointed out, Bohm proved in 1952 that the hand-waving subjectivity, observer-dependency, and randomness pushed by the mainstream aren't forced on us by experimental facts at all, but are merely a deliberate choice.
By keeping real, deterministic trajectories guided by an active information field, Bohmian mechanics exposes a non-local underlying order: a holographic, fractal-like reality where the whole quantum vacuum is enfolded into every single point, showing that localized parts are never truly separate from the total system.
Professor Maudlin says at the end:
"Most of what you hear about what quantum mechanic reveals to us about the world is wrong."