Argumentation about de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory

Guest blog by Ilja Schmelzer, a right-wing anarchist and independent scientistA nice summary of standard arguments against de Broglie-Bohm theory can be found at R. F. Streater's "Lost Causes in Theoretical Physics" website. Ulrich Mohrhoff [broken link, sorry] also combines the presentation of his position with an interesting rejection of pilot wave theory. These arguments I consider in a different file. Here, I consider the arguments proposed...

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Pacific waters as an excuse for the warming hiatus

Most of the mainstream media offered us a bizarre "story" in the recent two or three days. The absence of global warming in recent years – well, it's really 17 years now – has been "explained" by the Pacific waters. Problem solved, the belief in the global warming ideology may continue unchallenged, we're de facto told.PDO: warm and cool phaseThe claims are based on the paper by Kosaka and Xie in Nature,Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial...

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One can't background-independently localize field operators in QG

...because the "basis" of coherent states is overcomplete...Let me begin with something simple. John Preskill asked you "What's inside a black hole?" and offered you four options:An unlimited amount of stuff.Nothing at all.A huge but finite amount of stuff, which is also outside the black hole.None of the above.Well, the option (D) may have been at the beginning and an obvious suboption of (D), "The black hole interior is a region just like any other...

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Two-sigmaish CMS multilepton excesses with a \(\tau\)

A possible hint of third-generation superpartnersMatt Strassler mentioned an interesting anomaly reported by CMS at a SUSY conference this week:A Discrepancy to Keep an Eye On (Prof Dr RNDr Matt Strassler PhD CSc DrSc Dot COM)It's small enough so that you may assume that it's just another example of a fluctuation that will go away with more data. But it's large enough for many of us to gain the right to be intrigued. ;-)The excesses have something...

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