> or does everyone believe that if Bell inequality has not been solved, then hidden parameters do not exist
I'm definitely not qualified to comment on quantum mechanics, but Bell's inequality essentially states that any hidden variables theory is incompatible with the principle of locality right?

I believe the Copenhagen interpretation – which gives up determinism in order to preserve locality – is only one such possible interpretation, albeit the most widely accepted one. There is also Bohmian mechanics (aka pilot wave) which is a hidden-variables theory that preserves determinism and realism at the expense of giving up locality. And many-worlds, which has a bit more support, where you give up realism but keep the other two.

Also if you want to get really niche there's also the loophole Bell noted of superdetermisn, where you can have your cake and eat it too (satisfy all of locality, determinism, and realism) at the expense of basically giving up on everything by throwing out falsifiability. I personally like this one the most because it just seems the cleanest and most elegant. And it wouldn't fully demolish our present understanding of the world if this strong-determinism applied only at the quantum scale; that is, statistical independence would now be an emergent properly limited to the macroscopic scale.

That's about where my layperson understanding of QM ends.

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>>2008
I don't know the answer and I don't know whether the answer is actually important or not in terms of whether it can be implemented in some way. If there's ever patterns of behavior, it "seems" likely that reasons exist for it. However, these specific reasons may be beyond humans' ability to abstract. If there is an answer, it might take computers to figure it out. Modeling, trial and error, whatever. What one theory or another says is completely unimportant. They're just models, not doctrines. They can be further supported or completely demolished at any time. Anyway, please post more appealing images.

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>>2010
>whatever. What one theory or another says is completely unimportant
While I'm not sure it's what you intended to say, things raises a good point. No matter which interpretation of QM you ultimately choose to use, I don't think it's going to materially change the nature of the computations you ultimately perform to make predictions about the world. Because even if you subscribe to a "hidden-variables" theory, you're going to model it as a probability distribution in the end anyway. That said, new models – even untestable ones – might themselves inspire people to formulate and test out new implications so it's still worth exploring them.

>>2009
>it just seems the cleanest and most elegant
The idea that everything is 100 percent determined since the Big Bang, even quantum mechanics, seems to you "cleanest and most elegant"? Why?

>>2013
Viewing the universe as a cellular automaton seems pretty neat, and there appears to at least be some people [1] working on this approach, reconciling the results with the seeming implausibility of the conspiracy that initial conditions and determinism always conspire to result in violations of Bell's inequality.

I don't have the depth to go through that paper though so I'm not sure how valid it is.

[1] https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319412849

>>2014
Related (and serendipitously published just today):
http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/how-to-make-sense-of-quantum-physics

>>2014
>>2015
Thank you very much for your response and for your links.

>>2016
Some other good articles on superdetermism by the leading researchers in that niche. It definitely seems like it's something that should at least be explored instead of dismissed outright.
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-forgotten-solution-superdeterminism.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06462

Of note, the nobel prize in physics has been awarded for work on demonstrating violations of bells inequality in a wide range of circumstances. It's surprising that the last gap here was only closed in 2017. So at this point, assuming system-measurement independence, because we have observed violations of bells inequality in a robust set of circumstances we cannot have a local hidden variables theory. Or put another way, any theory of QM that is consistent with our observations must either:

* Reject the notion of system-measurement independence (superdeterminism)
* Reject locality (assume FTL communication of some form)
* Reject realism (the notion that particles have defined properties before measurement, i.e. that "god does not play dice" as Einstein supposedly said)

Most mainstream people like to preserve the notion of independence and locality so it's usually realism that gets chucked out (resulting in either copenhagen or many worlds)


[1] https://nautil.us/they-probed-quantum-entanglement-while-everyone-shrugged-241212/
[2] https://www.quantamagazine.org/pioneering-quantum-physicists-win-nobel-prize-in-physics-20221004/

>>2940
I find it interesting how much being a NEET screws with one's sense of time. When I heard the news about this I thought about when the Literature prize was going to be awarded, and saw October, I thought fuck that's months from now. Then just after, the prize comes in. We are in October after all.

>>2941
I've lost many many years like that.

https://news.yahoo.com/why-more-physicists-starting-think-045308127.html
Not sure how relevant this is, but posting it anyway. Maybe string theory will get left in the dust bin.