Author Archives: jostylr

What is in a name?

For those coming in and reading various Bohm sympathetic papers, they might be a little puzzled. What is the name of this theory? Are there multiple theories? What should it be called? So here is my view on the matter. There are three good contenders for the name: pilot wave theory, deBroglie-Bohm theory, and Bohmian […]

Classical Limit, Top Level draft done

I have just finished a short posting on the classical limit using the 7 Steps Towards a Classical World and the Bohmian Mechanics book as a reference. I have no idea how to typeset the third derivative and an equals sign had something bad happen to it. Otherwise, the texxing went okay. The top pages […]

Physicists Playing Dice

I was talking with my wife about the Einstein quote, “God does not play dice” and explaining that it sounds, unfortunately, like he is against randomness. Whatever he meant by it, randomness itself is not a problem. But when one plays dice, one usually plays with others. And that is the problem. It occurred to […]

Menu Done

The front page and its table of contents is done. The menu at the top has been arranged and hopefully the skeletal outline of this site is mostly done. I think the topics are well-covered. If the pages need to be broken further, I think there will then be subpages that do not appear on […]

What is the role of the blog?

This blog will have a variety of different uses. Some entries will be to publish Bohmian news such as new articles, books, and events. Other entries will be reviews of books and articles. A third category of entries will be more of a FAQ. A final category is that of speculative ideas. While publishing is […]