Resumen de Three-dimensionalist Bohmian Mechanics: Does Newton Defeat Aristotle?
Bohmian mechanics can be formulated either in a quasi-Newtonian form, with the postulation of forces proportional to acceleration, or in a first-order form that can be interpreted as incorporating causal concepts akin to those of Aristotelian physics. Here I analyze whether the desideratum of an interpretation of Bohmian mechanics both explanatorily adequate and not committed to the existence of the wave function in configuration space favors one approach to the theory over the other. Contrary to some recent claims in the literature I argue that the quasi-Newtonian approach based on the idea of a quantum potential is not favored.
