[ExI] Quantum Physics 'spookiness' still the best interpretation

[efc at disroot.org]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Sept 2024 at 11:57, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As usual with articles written like this, the meat of the proof far underperformed what is claimed.
>> One specific, simplified form of determinism was counterproven, not all forms of determinism.
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>
> The article agrees with you.
> But quantum spookiness is the best we have at present.
> BillK
>
> Quote:
> We may not have the ultimate, complete, full answer to the question of
> how the Universe works, but we have knocked down a tremendous number
> of pretenders from the throne. If your predictions disagree with
> experiments, your theory is wrong, no matter how popular, compelling,
> or beautiful it happens to be. We have not yet ruled out all possible
> incarnations of Bohmian mechanics, or of more general pilot wave
> theories, or of all possible quantum mechanics interpretations that
> possess hidden variables. In fact, it may not ever be possible to do
> so. However, every attempt to construct a theory that agrees with
> experiment requires some level of quantum spookiness that simply
> cannot be done away with.

I would have liked to see this, first thing, and not last. That would
save a lot of time for a non-scientist like me. ;)