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Re:Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:47AM (#26329892)
Eh, because of quantisation you could argue only integers exist ;)
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Re:Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality by eigenket on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:54AM (#26330011)
Quantised is not synonymous with discretised. The fact that (for example) energy in a simple harmonic oscillator comes in discrete packets doesn't mean that the kinetic energy of a free particle is. Some quantities in quantum mechanics are as continuous as their classical analogues.
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Re:Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:59AM (#26330114)
Then you learn about Zeeman effect.
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