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Liam Weavers's avatar

Saying that fields or wavefunctions aren’t real because they’re statistical descriptions misses the point that something must exist for those statistics to describe. The repeatable structure that makes prediction possible is the "field" and the wavefunction is just how we keep track of it. Like we keep track of people by giving them different names... It doesn't mean you're not real because somebody gave you a name.

Bijou's avatar

Yes, but I do not miss that point. Barandes maybe does! He does not have something underneath to describe the stochastic dynamics, he is non-specific about that (ask him in private though, he might have something in mind he is not willing to share?) I however do have something in mind. I just did not write about it today, see the last paragraph.

Liam Weavers's avatar

Sorry I missed that bit! I look forward to reading it if you do share... Particularly how you deal with time 😏

GhostOnTheHalfShell's avatar

you keep playn with dat title. whoops no out of the corner of my eye it looked like your drawing was the same as one of your previous posts.

my bad. I still want to extract from you your definition of inflation. >:0