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No change in Hilbert space fundamentalism
Published 23 Feb 2026 in quant-ph and physics.hist-ph | (2602.20331v1)
Abstract: Hilbert space fundamentalism (HSF) states that everything about the physical world is encoded in the Hamiltonian operator and the state vector (as a unit vector, not a wavefunction, which requires additional specification of a configuration space, a position basis, or the position observables). That all structures needed to describe reality, including subsystems, space, fields, emerge from these. I show that HSF can't account for our observations that the physical world changes in time.
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