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In 1945, Schrödinger was 58, Bohr was 60, and Einstein was past retirement age. Heisenberg, Pauli, Jordan, and Dirac were in their 40s. With the end of the war, another crop of bright young physicists would soon be emerging from the universities. Would they accept the revolutionaries’ radical positivism — or follow Einstein and seek to restore realism in physics?
Einstein did not seem to know that this possibility [a complete physical description of quantum phenomena] had been disposed of with great rigour by J. von Neumann ... But in 19521 saw the impossible done. It was in papers of David Bohm.
— John Bell, Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics
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Lede quote: from “On The Impossible Pilot Wave,” Found. Phys. 12, (1982), p. 989–999, reprinted in Bell (1987). A superb defense of Bohm/de Broglie.
Nelson’s Dynamical Theories of Brownian Motion (1967).
For stochastic mechanics see the latter and Nelson’s Quantum Fluctuations (1985).
For a stochastic-mechanical treatment of EPRB, see W. Faris Found. Phys. 12, (1982), p. 1–26.
Feynes’ article appeared in Z. für Physik 132, (1952), p. 81–106
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Wick, D. (1995). The Post-War Heresies. In: The Infamous Boundary. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5361-7_10
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