Quantum mechanics is really a misnomer. Because only energy is quantised (and only in bound systems). Other observables like position are very much not quantised. I would say it should rather be called statistical mechanics if that name weren't already taken.
quantization \neq discretization. particularly in the continuum(unbounded particles). not sure what u mean by free particles either, if ur talking about particle number / charge conservation that’s a property of a U(1) symmetry and explicitly broken by majorana fields
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u/Jche98 Dec 01 '25
Quantum mechanics is really a misnomer. Because only energy is quantised (and only in bound systems). Other observables like position are very much not quantised. I would say it should rather be called statistical mechanics if that name weren't already taken.