Are today. It’s Chunk vs 747, Jumbo Jet, and of this writing, Jumbo is ahead.
Real talk, 747 is a fat bear. Not the fattest, but a stout competitor. Get out and vote for Chunk, though.
Ground State Energy
Final point on this while I’m thinking about it.
Energy is relative. You can go negative (when the system does work on you). As such, a zero level of energy might not mean exactly what it sounds like, nor would a positive amount of energy necessarily mean the ability to do things.
So if our previous system has 1/2 an eV, that might be zero.
What’s weird about quantum…one thing that’s weird about quantum is that energy is calculated relative to other things that aren’t energy. So if you take a Hamiltonian of a wavefunction, you get an energy. But you’re not entirely sure what that energy is in relation to. If you take a classical Hamiltonian of a rock on a sled going down a hill, you know what the energy is relative to. It’s the hill. In a quantum state? Eh. Things can get kinda squiggly.
There’s a real theory in quantum that says, ‘Quantum is impossible to understand so don’t try.’ I think that’s my ideological justification for my denial of QT, even though by all practical standards, it works incredibly well.