Graduate Student Employment Isis?

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The probability of finding the particle at all seems to be oscillating between zero and one. So this is a job for imaginary numbers, or for complex numbers more generally. That's an attempt to explain how negative numbers become very, very convenient in real world physics. Are there any createde solutions you've thought of, besides moving the bottle neck from getting into grad school?

Welcome to the March 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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