Uncharitable punchline is “if you take pilot wave but keep track of every possible position that any particle could have been (and ignore where they actually were in the actual experiment) then you get many worlds.” Seems like a dumb thing to do to me.
Except I don’t know how you explain quantum computers without tracking that? If you stop tracking, isn’t that just Copenhagen? The “branches” have to exist and interfere with each other and then be “unobserved” to merge them back together.
What does the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester look like in Pilot Wave? It makes sense in Many Worlds: you just have to blow up some of them.
Except I don’t know how you explain quantum computers without tracking that? If you stop tracking, isn’t that just Copenhagen? The “branches” have to exist and interfere with each other and then be “unobserved” to merge them back together.
What does the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester look like in Pilot Wave? It makes sense in Many Worlds: you just have to blow up some of them.
I must abstain from further culturewaring but this thought experiment is blowing my mind. I hadn’t heard of it.
Could I just say that the wave interferes with the bomb (if it’s live) and bumps the particle after the wave hits the mirror?
(I don’t actually know enough physics to, like, do the math on that.)