@MoreAnonymous he sounds well informed/ knowledgeable/ like serious contributor ask him if he will accept credit in acknowledgements. since he is unpublished as a phd, think thats a very a reasonable proposal/ approach.
@MoreAnonymous excellent! QM is all about very subtle )( statistics in a way even the physicists probably dont (fully) realize yet, thats an excellent angle that have pursued for many, many years (decades) myself, and think it will someday amount to a fundamental gamechanger/ massive 21st century paradigm shift! but, not following, who advised who?