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Re:Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality by GoblinSlayer on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:12AM (#26344214)
You can say that about anything, like real quantum mechanics isn't just real numbers, but also functions, equations, operators and a lot of stuff like that.
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Re:Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality by ko27 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:42PM (#26348795)
> Functions, equations, operators

All of those are part of Peano and ZFC axiomatic systems, which were thought to be enough to explain all of physics (albeit not easily). Matrices and imaginary numbers are not part of those formal systems.

Just ask yourself. If you are right, why didn't Schrodinger or the researches that are publishing this study just think of your idea of using matrices?

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