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Some people use similar reasoning to "explain" why quantum mechanics uses complex numbers. http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html http://www.scottaa
by evanb 13y ago
Some people use similar reasoning to "explain" why quantum mechanics uses complex numbers.
http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
(scroll down to "Real vs. Complex Numbers", about 2/3rds of the way through the page)
- jjoonathan 13y agoAwesome, I was about to go dig up the link but you saved me the trouble. I found some relevant discussion on stackexchange, but I haven't digested it thoroughly enough to have an opinion yet. http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/32422/qm-without-complex-numbers http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/32422/qm-without-...
- nileshtrivedi 13y agoThis was an amazing read. I love explanations like this which are based on pure concepts that require just a little bit of bending the mind, but then explain so much more.