Re:Quantum Physics Falls Apart Without Imaginary Numbers
by User23 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:31PM
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Are you familiar with Visual Complex Analysis?
Your spiral motion intuition is really cool and complements the amplitwist model that book introduced me to nicely.
On a random tangent, one of the reasons why I love Common Lisp is that it has functions like CIS[1] in its library. That got me realizing you can literally view SIN and COS as CAR and CDR for what's essentially a cons of non-Complex numbers. I don't claim there's any benefit to doing so, but it's not wrong.
Your spiral motion intuition is really cool and complements the amplitwist model that book introduced me to nicely.
On a random tangent, one of the reasons why I love Common Lisp is that it has functions like CIS[1] in its library. That got me realizing you can literally view SIN and COS as CAR and CDR for what's essentially a cons of non-Complex numbers. I don't claim there's any benefit to doing so, but it's not wrong.
[1] http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_cis.htm