Thursday, April 12, 2007, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
H. Nikolic, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb
Abstract:
Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics is the best known and most
successfull attempt to formulate a hidden variable completion of quantum
mechanics. In this interpretation, particles are pointlike objects
moving along deterministic trajectories even when they are not measured.
I present a review of the well established results of the Bohmian interpretation and an overview of my own results concerning the generalization of the Bohmian interpretation to high energy physics, including relativistic quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and string theory. In some cases, the Bohmian interpretation leads to new measurable predictions that cannot be obtained with the standard interpretation of quantum theory.