Recent content by Lish Lash

Because, fundamentally, that's ALL computers know how to do. Most likely it's because only a small fraction of computer programmers have any training whatsoever in feedback control theory. Those who do, e.g. Boston Dynamics, have demonstrated remarkable progress in robotic mastery of...

And they say us Bohmians are "spooky".

Here's a direct link to one of Hossenfelder's points most relevant to this discussion, "what physicists mean when they talk about beauty":

Python 3's incompatibility with the extensive archives of Python 2 code floating around the web is a slow-motion disaster. Very little effort has been made to go back and tag open source code and docs with version numbers, and you can't trust anything to work out of the box anymore. As mentioned...

Here's how this experiment is interpreted in Bohmian Mechanics: The photons detected by Alice and Bob are particles that each possesses just one (hidden) property: their actual position in 3D space at the point in time they are measured. All other quantum properties, such as polarization, are...

Good question, my impression is that relaxing the Born Rule takes Bohmian Mechanics into Multiple Worlds terrritory. However, I can't claim to speak authoritatively on the relation of MWI to the Born Rule.

The Quantum Equilibrium Hypothesis is a postulate specific to Bohmian Mechanics - it is what ensures that BM maintains consistency with the Born Rule (and consequently, reproduces all predications of Quantum Mechanics). I'm not sure whether you're referring to "out of equilibrium information" or...

I have the impression you're envisioning this "superliminal signal" as something akin to the way a shadow projected by a laser situated on Earth can appear to dart across the surface of the moon at a faster-than-light velocity. Here's an entertaining examination of this phenomenon: As...

Once again, you are postulating the physical 4D spacetime manifestation of a "superluminal signal" that propagates at a faster-than-light velocity to convey information between mutually entangled particles. No such signal exists in Bohmian Mechanics. The Bohmian pilot wave manifests in...

This is a misrepresentation of Bohmian Mechanics. To claim that the Bohmian pilot wave posseses a "faster than light" velocity is to imply that it propagates through the medium of 4D spacetime. If that were the case, it would become a local phenomenon subject to relativity, in contradiction to...

While I agree with your characterization of scientists, those are examples of what I (and I believe most dictionaries) would describe as "elegance". You may insist on conflating that term with more fashionably publicized forms of "beauty", but it's a distinction I think we do recognize when we...

Implying likewise that Copenhagen is empirically equivalent to Bohmian Mechanics?

I would argue that "beauty" is such a culturally loaded term that it is inappropriate to apply it to a field as rigorously objective as physics. Beauty is not only an intrinsically subjective term, it is entangled with intimately personal associations of pleasure and sexual attraction...

Brown does in fact have a central wavelength. It is a dark, desaturated shade of orange, around 620 nm.

Indeed. That is one of the properties that makes an optoisolator very close to a pure resistance element. From an analog engineer's perspective, that is ideal.