[carapace]

I'm just reading "What is Real?" by Adam Becker (a history of QM published this year) and boy do the Copenhagenists look foolish. Even Bohr comes off as a saintly buffoon.

With experimental confirmation that the universe is non-local and "spooky action at a distance" is real, the pilot wave theory "wins" and there's no measurement problem.

(It isn't journalists though, it's the physicists themselves that muddied the waters by permitting herd mentality to overwhelm science. Also, von Neumann got a proof wrong! Folks can be forgiven for not suspecting that. But once it was noticed then the "orthodoxy" should have paid attention.)

[Luc]

“What Is Real” is an opinionated book, to put it mildly.

[carapace]

No doubt. But the facts of which the opinions are held are pretty staggering.

Von Neumann got a proof wrong in his textbook on QM. Grete Hermann found the error in 1935 and nobody noticed. De Broglie presented a "pilot wave" theory at the Fifth Solvay Conference in 1927.

Einstein kept pointing out the problem with non-locality and everybody thought he was getting old and foggy.

Physics is hella tribal. Physics.

I took the Copenhagen metaphysics pretty seriously. It's so neat and elegant to confound the mystery of quantum wave-function collapse with the mystery of subjective experience. The "observer-created Universe" and all that. It's very disturbing to realize that it's basically metaphysical bunk. It's just staggering.

But never mind all that!

The Universe is non-local!

*And yet-- Relativity!"

Nothing can go faster than the speed of light, but wave collapse does, so this is going to be some awesome physics!