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AMA | March 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Why You Never Need Imaginary Numbers

Think of the double slip experiment, ok? Think of a a electron wave function. It's passing through two slits. Anon the other side, it interferes. So what are the features physically that you want to have happen? And forget about observations and decoherence, all that stuff. We're just thinkn of the simple wave goes through two slit and get an interference pattern on the other side. That's why waves are the natural place to look the way.

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