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nomadreid
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- The term "quantum fluctuation" is supposedly only a popular science expression. Whereas I can understand the objection to some explanations of quantum distributions, the fact that the values in the distribution change at different intervals of spacetime make it a change, i.e., fluctuation, no?
I have read in several places (e.g., https://physics.stackexchange.com/q...ing-of-quantum-fluctuations-and-vacuum-energy) that "quantum fluctuations" is an expression to be consigned to the sixth or eighth Circle of Dante's Inferno. OK, I can sympathize with this when the said fluctuations are linked too directly to an uncertainty principle, or some other incorrect explanation. However, what "quantum fluctuations" usually refer to is a change of a value over space or time, and as the values of a distribution are indeed dependent on intervals of spacetime, and they are not necessarily constant, and since a synonym for "fluctuation" is "change", then I do not see what is so objectionable about the term. What am I missing?
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