Let's settle this once for all.
Complex numbers don't have a physical interpretation.
Yet they appear in the Schroedinger equation.
QM as a result is fucked up.
How about NOT NAMING them, MAKING WITHOUT THEM and simply using [math]\mathbb{R}^{2}[/math]?
The complex number hoax
Brandon Hernandez
Benjamin Gray
It's because of how they describe periodic functions when added to the exponential
Andrew Hernandez
R^2 is not a field.
Henry Long
There are many commonly used irrational numbers that can't even be constructed with elementary operations and might as well have no physical meaning either.
Eli Jenkins
it is depending on how you define multiplication, famalan :3
Isaac Roberts
each complex number can be physically interpreted as a rotation and scaling of R^2
en.wikipedia.org
Andrew Watson
No one considers R^2 a field. My shoe looks to be made of jelly beans if you are stoned enough.
Matthew James
C isn't readily a field either, it's a set which is isomorphic to R^2. So you could just define multiplication in the context of R^2.
Brody Morris
Which no one does. R^2 is notation exclusively used for euclidean space.
Logan Hughes
>There are many commonly used irrational numbers that can't even be constructed with elementary operations and might as well have no physical meaning either.
They can be approximated as a measure of length.
Approximate me the length of i in real life.