RE: math tard, Help
June 28, 2015 at 6:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2015 at 6:00 am by bennyboy.)
(June 28, 2015 at 5:35 am)Alex K Wrote: Meh, complex numbers are just pairs of numbers with a funny multiplication rule
People always make them sound way too magical if you ask me. In one of Dan Browns books, the protagonist tells the skeptical physicist - well you *believe* in things too, for example in imaginary numbers"
A typical Dan Brown howler. But that's because they are always sold as something mysterious, when it's just an efficient method to calculate with pairs of numbers.
But it is strange that they seem to be built into the fabric of reality somehow. After all, the schroedinger equation wouldn't be the same without them (instead you'd have two coupled real equations)
Yeah that's deep. How / in what way could i (small i lol) be represented in physical reality? How does reality "know" how to express situations where it's hiding behind the surface somewhere?
