> Upshot: You use quantum mechanics to decide a classical potential for you (e.g. you chose the classical potential that factors into pairs such that each pair energy is 'closest' in the Hilbert space metric to the quantum rest) - Downside: You're missing the variance.
Couldn't the quantum mechanical state become multimodal such that the classical approximation picks a state that is far away from the physical reality?
And, couldn't this multimodality excaberate during the actual physical process and possibly arrive at a number of probable outcomes which are never predicted by the simulation? Is there more than hope that that doesn't happen?
Couldn't the quantum mechanical state become multimodal such that the classical approximation picks a state that is far away from the physical reality?
And, couldn't this multimodality excaberate during the actual physical process and possibly arrive at a number of probable outcomes which are never predicted by the simulation? Is there more than hope that that doesn't happen?