This seems like a great example of a theory that Occam’s Razor should slash, or assign low probability. Though our best formal definition of the Razor is wrong.
My point isn’t that it is unreasonable to use symmetric (/antisymmetric) wavefunctions until we discover something that requires us to use a more complicated model. My objection is to an error in thinking that holds that such potential future discoveries are a-priori impossible. I’m with philosopher Bob on this one.
This seems like a great example of a theory that Occam’s Razor should slash, or assign low probability. Though our best formal definition of the Razor is wrong.
My point isn’t that it is unreasonable to use symmetric (/antisymmetric) wavefunctions until we discover something that requires us to use a more complicated model. My objection is to an error in thinking that holds that such potential future discoveries are a-priori impossible. I’m with philosopher Bob on this one.