Timeline for Why is it important that physics consists of unitary phenomena?
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| Apr 17, 2023 at 13:57 | comment | added | Andrew Steane | It would change the character of symmetries. A stochastic field can have exact symmetry in its probability distribution, for example, while the resulting physical behaviour only has the symmetry in some average way. | |
| Apr 7, 2023 at 11:46 | comment | added | vengaq | when you say that "The idea of a stochastic contribution to fundamental dynamics is not completely ruled out" do you mean that if unitarity was not really fundamental in physics then there would be no symmetries and chaos would rather be fundamental? @AndrewSteane | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 16:29 | history | answered | Andrew Steane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |