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The essential physical significance of the law of motion is therefore simply that all ‘interactions’ are manifestations of EPR-entanglement and nothing but EPR-entanglement. What might seem a mere change of terminology here is actually a radical shift of physical viewpoint, comparable to the abandonment of gravitational ‘force’ in general relativity.

— Antony Valentini (1996)



[There] seems to be a ‘conspiracy’ between relativity and quantum theory, whereby uncertainty noise prevents one from using subquantum nonlocality for practical signalling. Why should the nonlocality be hidden in this way? A physics whose coherence rests on such a peculiar conspiracy can hardly be regarded as fundamental.

— Antony Valentini (1996)



[W]e are simply using the wrong variables ….

— Antony Valentini (1996)



It seems premature to embark on a study of the Universe conceived as a single quantum-mechanical entity when, even in the restricted realm of mechanical phenomena, quantum mechanics does not provide a universal description.

— Peter Holland (1995)



Standardly, we are cautioned not to inquire further. Physics stops here.

Arthur Fine (1996)



[W]e do think it very likely that if the ultimate theory is a quantum theory it will in fact be a Bohmian theory.

— Detlef Dürr (1995)



Perhaps the most venerable of all the philosophical definitions holds that the world is deterministic just in case every event has a cause.

John Earman (1986)



We are often told … that no physical theory describing well-defined objects … can account for [quantum] phenomena. The great majority of physicists continue to subscribe to this view, despite the fact that just such a deterministic theory, accounting for all of the phenomena of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, was proposed by David Bohm more than four decades ago….

James Cushing (1995)



[W]hile space measurements and time measurements when taken separately are relative, space-time measurements are absolute. The space-time position of events and the space-time interval between them are the same for all observers and never change.

William Craig (2001)