TIMING QUANTUM PARTICLES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BOHMIAN MECHANICS

According to Bohm's causal alternative to conventional quantum mechani cs a quantum 'particle' such as an electron is at all times a point-li ke particle and an accompanying wave that guides the particle along a well-defined continuous trajectory. This paper focuses on the Bohm tra jectory approach to the determination of various characteristic times associated with the motion of the particle component of a quantum 'par ticle'. An attempt is made to relate this approach to those based on c onventional quantum theory with its very different concept of wave/par ticle duality.