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Have you heard of Bohemian or pilot wave theory for QM? It's very rarely discussed except in darker corners of the internet but it's surprising to me it's not used as visualization. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theo...

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I didn’t know I was writing for the “darker corners of the internet”!

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/a-brief-history-of-q...

Oh, yeah, Ars is pretty dark, but where it really comes up a lot is amongst child pornographers and terrorists. In fact, it's been shown that when a new pilot wave paper lands, productivity (such as it is) in those areas drops precipitously for a time. In fact it's a robust enough result that it forms a strong argument for increasing science funding.

More seriously, I interpreted "darker corners of the internet" in the parent to be a bit tongue in cheek, but to generally be indicating fora where there's a higher ratio of layman to expert, and crackpot to serious practitioner. There was no claim that it isn't discussed outside of that setting, just that it occurs more frequently there (as a proportion of QM discussions in general). This squares with my (poorly informed) general impression.

"have you not heard of this rarely talked-about theory that exists in the dark corners where only whspers live? Well here's a link to the wikipedia page"

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