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by bitwize 4366 days ago
Interesting. Maybe this will discourage chuckleheads and ne'er-do-wells from citing "quantum physics" as the justifixation for their particular variety of woo?

Probably not, but one can hope!

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If you can't bullshit your way through criticism with vague-sounding phrases like “As the particles move along, they feel the wave field generated by them in the past and all other particles in the past”, you're not trying hard enough. :v

This magical bracelet is powered by the wave field shaping the contours of the superfluid of space time! Carrying you through life on positive pilot waves!

I can imagine supporters of homeopathy would have a great time drawing unfounded conclusions from the bit in that article that talks about fluids exhibiting a "path memory".
Would be even worse if it was proven that molecule actually have this kind of memory.
This brings to mind a talk by someone I saw once who talked of telling the Dalai Lama about Bohmian mechanics. The response was one of gratitude for he had always felt like standard QM was a bit nonsensical.
I hope so, mostly because it makes it harder to claim that the universe is non-deterministic; it was QM that really pushed that from vague spiritualism into accepted science.