https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1311.0813/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23696743urn:hackerpapers:mention:1311.0813:23696743Wed, 01 Jul 2020 01:24:23 GMT<p>Baez always makes interesting reading. At the end of the abstract there is the arxiv-bait &quot;inverse temperature is imaginary time&quot;, which relates to Wick Rotation and his work on quantropy a few years ago: http://jakobschwichtenberg.com/wick-rotation-action-formalis... https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/quantropy/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0813 TL;DR if Boltzmann says thermodynamic states occur in proportion to exp(-E/kT), Feynman says paths in the quantum state space occur with weight exp(-S/i hbar), and action S ~ Et, then there is some analogy, ignoring constants (k,hbar,c)…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1311.0813/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>quant-ph