http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/ on Bell inequalities and the de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave version of QM Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:23:22 GMT Dennis May http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1567 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1567 I don't believe there ever was a difficulty - I was just having a hard time digesting some of the incorrect or misleading explanations from the assorted Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:21:19 GMT Dennis May http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1566 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1566 I believe my questions about the "Three Slit Experiment" came about because upon reading about it from several sources some approached it incorrectly implying Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:14:22 GMT Dennis May http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1565 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1565 Another comment further on:   "Florian: Total destructive interference occurs in the 3-slit experiment by the cancellation of the wave amplitudes from the 3 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:09:27 GMT Jon Lang http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1564 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1564 I'm not seeing what the difficulty is. In the dBB interpretation, the wave function takes all three slits into account and defines the usual probability Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:01:24 GMT Dennis May http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1563 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1563 From the 1st comment at the bottom of the link:   "The conclusion should be: yes all radiation is able to split and travel along all different routes Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:50:11 GMT Dennis May http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1562 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1562 http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100722/full/news.2010.371.html  I am trying to understand the de Broglie - Bohm explanation of the three slit experiment.  A Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:57:41 GMT Dennis May http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1558 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1558 Many big players in physics - list toward the bottom of the link.   21st-century directions in de Broglie-Bohm theory and beyond Conference: 28 Aug 2010 - 4 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:16:29 GMT Dennis May http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1557 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1557 Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091011071349.htm   I had not heard of this Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:07:59 GMT Dennis May http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1556 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1556 Several bloggers mentioned the same thing you have.  The popular press accounts attempted to portray it as support for "string theory" generally - a first Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:15:30 GMT rpffan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1555 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1555 Note this is an application of some mathematical techniques associated with string theory (namely AdS/CFT) rather than an application of "string theory" as a Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:07:06 GMT dennislmay@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1554 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1554 There is a recent paper where for the first time a practical application has been found for string theory in relation to high temperature superconductivity.   Thu, 07 May 2009 18:31:58 GMT Dennis May http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1553 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1553 That is what I thought the approach would be.  I read Bohm's "Wholeness and the Implicate Order" but not "The Undivided Universe".  I will have to get a Thu, 07 May 2009 16:55:12 GMT rpffan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1552 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1552 Bohm gives an interesting account of superconductivity, on the BCS level, in *The Undivided Universe*, which despite its name is basically a textbook on Thu, 07 May 2009 01:33:11 GMT Dennis May http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1551 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1551 Superconductivity discussed.   http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0812/0812.4118v1.pdf   A general short description of Bohmian Mechanics   Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:59:30 GMT dennislmay@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1550 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bell_bohm/message/1550 John S. Bell outlined why Bohmian Mechanics works to produce the same results as conventional indeterministic quantum mechanics.  Among the