{
  "id": "quant-ph/0502049",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2005-02-08T19:01:13.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-09-07T17:19:18.000Z",
  "title": "Bohmian trajectories and the ether: Where does the analogy fail?",
  "authors": [
    "Louis Marchildon"
  ],
  "comment": "Various clarifications; references added; forthcoming in SHPMP",
  "journal": "Stud. Hist. Phil. Mod. Phys. 37 (2006) 263-74",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Once considered essential to the explanation of electromagnetic phenomena, the ether was eventually discarded after the advent of special relativity. The lack of empirical signature of realist interpretative schemes of quantum mechanics, like Bohmian trajectories, has led some to conclude that, just like the ether, they can be dispensed with, replaced by the corresponding emergence of the concept of information. Although devices like Bohmian trajectories and the ether do present important analogies, I argue that there is also a crucial difference, related to distinct explanatory functions of quantum mechanics.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2005-09-07T17:19:18.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "bohmian trajectories",
      "analogy fail",
      "quantum mechanics",
      "distinct explanatory functions",
      "realist interpretative schemes"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2005quant.ph..2049M"
    }
  }
}