Comment by andyjohnson0
4 days ago
> Using Wigner's theorem, we prove that the energy levels internal to the spaceship must undergo spontaneous discretization.
I am in no way qualified to understand this paper. But I have a question.
Is it normal for physicists to talk about a mathematical result being a "proof" of the predicted behaviour of a physical system? To what extent would claims of a proof in physics require experimental validation?
I appreciate that Wigner's theorem is well established, and that mathematics is the framework for describing physics. I also appreciate that experimental validation of the situation described in the paper is very likely beyond our abilities, even in the future. My question is about how physicists view the idea of proof
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