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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
I prefer the Bohmian, hidden variables approach. Just because we can't detect something, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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It turns out that the Bohmian approach is coming under fire in this regard. You must first recognize that the Bohmian approach has no one specific version, and has not really been worked out. It is more of an idea than an exact theory. A number of people on working on it, but it is not exactly mainstream at this point.
However, some of the main elements of the program can be tested. For example, see:
A first experimental test of de Broglie-Bohm theory against standard quantum mechanics (2002)
This excludes many Bohmian type theories. There have been other papers as well. Naturally, the Bohmians reject these experiments. But do far, EVERY proposed theory which gives "almost" identical results to Standard Quantum Mechanics (SQM) has been experimentally rejected. So only Bohmian theories which give 100% identical results to QM - and there may not be any of these possible - can currently claim to be feasible.
The point is: when you look at the details of a full Bohmian theory, it is always different than SQM in some minor respect.