Bohmian Mechanics

Bohmian mechanics is the most naively obvious embedding imaginable of Schroüdinger equation into a completely coherent physical theory. It describes a world in which particles move in a highly non-Newtonian sort of way, one which may at first appear to have little to do with the spectrum of predictions of quantum mechanics. However, this deterministic theory of particles in motion completely accounts for all the phenomena of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, from spectral lines to interference effects, and it does so in a completely ordinary manner. It was first presented by David Bohm more than forty years ago. Moreover, a preliminary version of this theory was presented by de Broglie almost at the inception of quantum mechanics. Its principal advocate for the past three decades was John Bell:



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