Fanghur Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Does anyone know whether there are currently any interpretations of quantum mechanics that are entirely deterministic? I was recently watching a debate between the cosmologist Sean Carroll and the Christian apologist William Lane Craig, wherein Craig claimed that there exist interpretations of quantum mechanics that are entirely deterministic. Now, frankly I would be tempted to just dismiss the assertion outright as an ad hoc attempt at rescuing his first premise from being falsified, because I've certainly never heard of such an interpretation if it exists, but I could be mistaken. My understanding is that even the most deterministic interpretation I'm aware of that hasn't been experimentally falsified by Bell's Theorem and the experiments that followed thereafter, namely the Bohm interpretation, does contain some elements of indeterminacy within it, including radioactive decay and virtual particles. Basically, does anyone know if I am simply ignorant on this topic, or was Craig being deliberately misleading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 That may be a reference to Bohmian mechanics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie–Bohm_theory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enthalpy Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 Deterministic interpretations are abandoned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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