The Theory of (Exclusively) Local Beables

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It is shown how, starting with the de Broglie - Bohm pilot-wave theory, one can construct a new theory of the sort envisioned by several of QM's founders: a Theory of Exclusively Local Beables (TELB).

• In particular, the usual quantum mechanical wave function (a function on a high-dimensional configuration space) is not among the beables posited by the new theory.
• Instead, each particle has an associated ``pilot-wave'' field (living in physical space).
• A number of additional fields (also fields on physical space) maintain what is described, in ordinary quantum theory, as ``entanglement.'' The theory allows some interesting new perspective on the kind of causation involved in pilot-wave theories in general.