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Our universe is characterised by: (i) The absence of practical instantaneous signals (signal-locality), and (ii) An all-pervading statistical ‘noise’ (uncertainty principle). Now, as Bell deduced, there is a fundamental nonlocality hidden behind quantum statistics. Relativity is not overtly violated, however. There seems to be a ‘conspiracy’ between relativity and quantum theory, whereby uncertainty noise prevents one from using subquantum nonlocality for practical signalling. Why should the nonlocality be hidden in this way? A physics whose coherence rests on such a peculiar conspiracy can hardly be regarded as fundamental.
All science is cosmology.
— Karl Popper
This article is a brief outline of recent work by the author on the de Broglie—Bohm theory. For further details the reader is referred to Valentini (1991a,b; 1992; 1996b).
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Valentini, A. (1996). Pilot-Wave Theory of Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. In: Cushing, J.T., Fine, A., Goldstein, S. (eds) Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 184. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8715-0_3
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