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Originally Posted by DrRocket
If a theory is formulated so as to agree with standard QM 100% of the time, is not in fact standard QM ? It seems to me if it provides the same predictions then it is the same theory, even if you paint it chartreuse.
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Yes, this is my objection too-- it's a fine thing to strip a theory of all unnecessary elements and still have it make the same predictions, but it's something quite different to add a whole bunch of extraneous bells and whistles just to make it sound like classical mechanics, but make no different predictions for all the effort. So if you take a version that changes none of the predictions, it is pretty pointless, and if you take a version that does change the predictions, it fails experimentally. Not a lot to recommend it, on the whole.