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Pilot wave theory: the "weird effects" that QM displays are really just the result of space time being a thing that vibrates in a wave-like pattern influenced by mass.

And the reason this is cool is because when you put everyday objects in situations like that stated above, they exhibit quantum interference and everything else.

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So this is essentially what is meant by the "deBroglie-Bohm" interpretation. There is an underlying definite configuration of all matter, but it is "guided" deterministically by the wavefunction psi. This avoids issues associated with wave function collapse, but by no means does it rid us of all the "weird effects". In particular, the pilot wave is explicitly non-local, in that for a Bell-type experiment the choice of measurement in one location will (instantaneously) affect the physical state of affairs in the other location.

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