That carries the analogy a bit too far. While 'sampling rate' commonly implies a discrete time interval it can also mean an average. Wave function collapse isn

That carries the analogy a bit too far. While 'sampling rate' commonly implies a discrete time interval it can also mean an average. Wave function collapse isn't a physical process but instead a commitment to not try to explain what's behind the equations. (And IMO consequently not science. We don't just give up because it's hard.) QFT meanwhile seems to say that samples is what you get when two fields intersect. However, Bell inequality and decoherence further implies that there is no such thing as an abstract 'sample'. The spread of quantum information from an interaction is a subtle physical process.