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Dustin Lazarovici1, Andrea Oldofredi1, Michael Esfeld1
1Section de Philosophie, Université de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Abstract:
The paper argues that far from challenging-or even refuting-Bohm's quantum theory, the no-hidden-variables theorems in fact support the Bohmian ontology for quantum mechanics. The reason is that (i) all measurements come down to position measurements; and (ii) Bohm's theory provides a clear and coherent explanation of the measurement outcome statistics based on an ontology of particle positions, a law for their evolution and a probability measure linked with that law. What the no-hidden-variables theorems teach us is that (i) one cannot infer the properties that the physical systems possess from observables; and that (ii) measurements, being an interaction like other interactions, change the state of the measured system.
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