The Pilot-Wave Theory

Abstract

The current chapter presents a concrete example of a theory which purports to complete the usual quantum mechanical description of physical states (by adding something new).The theory was first proposed, but then prematurely abandoned, by de Broglie in the mid 1920s. The theory was then independently rediscovered and further developed by David Bohm in 1952 (and is therefore sometimes called “Bohmian Mechanics”).