Why does a 'number that shouldn't exist' drive the real world!? — A thought experiment decoding the greatest mystery of mathematics, 'imaginary numbers,' using 'rippling ...

The rule of our daily lives is that "multiplying the same number by itself (squaring it) always results in a positive number." However, in the world of mathematics, a number called an "imaginary ...
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Is Reality ‘Imaginary’? Physicists Just Settled One of Quantum Theory’s Weirdest Debates.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A team of German physicists has built a fully working version of quantum mechanics that uses only real numbers. Complex numbers, built from a ...