Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality
A new thought experiment indicates that quantum mechanics doesn’t work without strange numbers that turn negative when squared.
Charlie Wood
Contributing Writer
March 3, 2021
www.quantamagazine.org
The Negative Energy in Physics.
1 - Gravitational potential energy
2 - Quantum field effects
2.1 - Virtual particles
2.2 - Casimir effect
2.3 - Hawking radiation
2.4 - Squeezed light
2.5 - Dirac's vacuum sea . . . . etc
en.wikipedia.org
These effects reflect the existence of world of negative energy
A new thought experiment indicates that quantum mechanics doesn’t work without strange numbers that turn negative when squared.
Charlie Wood
Contributing Writer
March 3, 2021
Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality
A new thought experiment indicates that quantum mechanics doesn’t work without strange numbers that turn negative when squared.
www.quantamagazine.org
The Negative Energy in Physics.
1 - Gravitational potential energy
2 - Quantum field effects
2.1 - Virtual particles
2.2 - Casimir effect
2.3 - Hawking radiation
2.4 - Squeezed light
2.5 - Dirac's vacuum sea . . . . etc
Negative energy - Wikipedia
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