Volume 5: Pages 130-132, 1992

Comments on Mayants's “A Note on Bohm's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”

Edward R. Floyd ¹

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A more thorough mathematical treatment of Bohm's quantum potential refutes Mayants's reasoning that the quantum potential is improperly founded. This treatment also exhibits the difference between the trajectory and Copenhagen interpretations of quantum mechanics.

Keywords: Bohm's causal interpretation, quantum mechanics, Hamilton‐Jacobi equation, quantum potential, trajectory interpretation, Copenhagen interpretation

Received: January 24, 1991; Published Online: December 15, 2008