patrick.net

Never even heard of this before:

https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-pilot-wave-theory

Yes! The best lecturer I've ever had.

His grad students had some complaints though... It was back in the day when he was doing research; I don't know if he is still active; not my field.

However, there is a danger with these popular science talks. They leave you with the impression that you understand things, whilhe in fact you don't.

The rule of thumb is - if you don't know how to apply a law of physics, you don't understand it.

rando says

https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-pilot-wave-theory

Yeah, you already have to give up non-locality to explain quantum entanglement, so why not pilot wave theory?

There was this one nutcase -- I swear it might have been Heraclitusstudent -- who wanted Brian Greene to agree with his wacko idea that the numbers 4 and 7 are controlling the universe because -- and I'm not making this up --
- there are 7 days in the week
- there are 7 continents on Earth
- there are 4 oceans on Earth
- the 7th letter of the English alphabet is g which is the first letter of god

Well, I'm convinced. And to think I've always considered the number of days in a week to be an arbitrary historical decision, the word continent to be essentially meaningless, and isn't the Arctic Ocean considered the fifth ocean now-a-days? Or better yet, there really is just one ocean with five names.

However, I never realized the universal physical properties embodied in the English alphabet.

That guy sounds like a Troll. There are several Flat Earther Trolls on Gab.ai.
Strange how these wack jobs appears on the scene after the scary clown in the woods faded away.