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I'm curious to hear some opinions from serious physicists on this site as to why no top physicists have ever worked on Bohmian Mechanics. Except Bohm and Bell, the theory has received virtually no attention from the world's most elite physicists. It does receive a lot of attention from lesser known physicists, and they are not well respected.

Bohmian Mechanics just seems like a much more sensible theory. All paradoxes completely vanish, no Schrodinger's Cat, no particles in two places at once, no nonsense about the moon only being there when you look at it.

Why won't any heavyweights take this reasonable approach seriously?

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In my opinion the main reason is that it is a mathematical reformulation of quantum mechanics that offers no extra predictions over the standard theory that can be tested experimentally. This means that it is a matter of taste whether to use the simple/elegant mathematics of the standard QM model or the complicated of the BM.

There are always more difficult ways to get to the same result, but physicists appreciate simplicity when there is a choice.

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