Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?" video.

  1. I hope you are not betting, your picks are awful. ;-)
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  2. For one thing... nobody has ever seen either a particle or a pilot wave. Physics is not religion. It's not in the business of inventing invisible, unknowable entities. All physics has to do is to describe what can be observed, preferably with as little effort as possible. Standard quantum mechanics does just that. At a somewhat deeper level it turns out that the physical vacuum is not made of single-particle states. Quite the contrary. It is not made of particles at all, but of a non-trivial number of quantum fields that interact strongly with each other. As "elegant" as pilot waves may look for the trivial case, trying to describe actual high energy interactions with them would be a horrible mess.
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  3. Sounds great, until you realize that the double slit experiment is not even a quantum mechanical experiment and that the actual quantum mechanical description of reality is not based on Copenhagen, but quantum field theory. At that point trying to replace Copenhagen with something else to explain a non-experiment begins to look a little silly.
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  4. That's cool. Now please calculate the most likely Higgs energy range with it. :-)
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