A SURVEY OF BOHMIAN MECHANICS

Bohmian mechanics is the most naively obvious embedding imaginable of Schrodinger's equation into a completely coherent physical theory. It describes a world in which particles move in a highly non-Newtonian so rt of way, one which may at first appear to have little to do with the spectrum of predictions of quantum mechanics. It turns out, however, that, as a consequence of the defining dynamical equations of Bohmian mechanics, when a system has wave function psi its configuration is ty pically random, with probability density rho given by \psi\(2), the qu antum equilibrium distribution. It also turns out that the entire quan tum formalism, operators as observables and ah the rest, is a conseque nce of Bohmian mechanics.