2025/11/27 by Sienicki, Mikołaj, Sienicki, Krzysztof
Physics and Astronomy · Arts and Humanities · #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Philosophy and History of Science #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2512.07881
This short note comments on \citetAerts2024Origin, which proposes that ranked word frequencies in texts should be read through the lens of Bose--Einstein (BE) statistics and even used to illuminate the origin of quantum statistics in physics. The core message here is modest: the paper offers an interesting analogy and an eye-catching fit, but several key steps mix physical claims with definitions and curve-fitting choices. We highlight three such points: (i) a normalization issue that is presented as "bosonic enhancement", (ii) an identification of rank with energy that makes the BE fit only weakly diagnostic of an underlying mechanism, and (iii) a baseline comparison that is too weak to support an ontological conclusion. We also briefly flag a few additional concerns (interpretation drift, parameter semantics, and reproducibility).