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Replying to Avatar JC πŸͺπŸ’ΎπŸŒ„πŸ“š

Anywhere in physics where waves appear you'll find complex numbers. I'm studying quantum mechanics right now and wave functions that describe particles are necessarily complex-valued, so they have a real part and an imaginary part - imagine a 2-dimensional number that's a point on a 2D graph instead of a point on a 1D line like real numbers.

Beyond QM there's optics, signal processing, fluids, electrical engineering... all heavily use complex numbers

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tanel 1y ago

most of this went over my head, but the idea of imagining numbers as 2-dimensional seems crazy to me πŸ€” never thought of them like that

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JC πŸͺπŸ’ΎπŸŒ„πŸ“š 1y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f079K1f2WQk Just 7 minutes :)

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