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In article <1992Oct1.125305.13437@oracorp.com>
daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough) writes:

> It seems clear to me that the wave function is not a physical field,
> in the sense of the classical electromagnetic field...

Just as a sidenote, Bell apparently was intrigued by the idea that the
wave function *was* every bit as real as an electromagnetic field, a cocept
first broached by DeBroglie in 1926 in his pilot wave model.  In the paper
after which his book Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics was
named, Bell makes his fondness for particle *and* wave quite clear by
saying: "Even now the de Broglie-Bohm model is generally ignored, and
is not taught to students.  I think this a great loss.  For that picture
exercises the mind in a very salutary way."

And again: no, I definitely do not subscribe to pilot waves.  I'm just
intrigued by how thoroughly UNconventional Bell was in his QM philosophy.
One of the greatest ironies I've seen regarding this was a headline in
a science article about Bell (I forget where) that described him as "The
Man Who Proved Einstein Wrong."  The excellent irony is that Bell would
have loved nothing more than to have proved Einstein RIGHT about quantum
mechanics.  Bell has nothing but praise for Einstein's approach to the
QM conundrum, and simultaneously Bell appears to regard Bohr's concept
of complementarianism as little more than pompous obfuscation.

Bell was NOT, repeat NOT your everday Copenhagen traditionalist.  He
liked his QM as solid as he could possiblly bake it, and went back to
the very earliest days of QM to find a recipe that suited his tastes.

				Cheers,
				Terry Bollinger