Why Does Nature Like the Square Root of Negative One?

Name: Why Does Nature Like the Square Root of Negative One?
Uploaded: 2013-08-16T21:44:14.000Z
Duration: 56 min 14 s
Channel: Bill Wootters
Description: Bill Wootters explores the fundamental role of complex numbers in quantum mechanics, delving into why the square root of negative one is indispensable to nature's description.

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Why Does Nature Like the Square Root of Negative One?

Bill Wootters Williams College

56:14·2013·graduate level·Public Colloquium

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Bill Wootters explores the fundamental role of complex numbers in quantum mechanics, delving into why the square root of negative one is indispensable to nature's description.

Bill Wootters of Williams College delivers a lecture: Why Does Nature Like the Square Root of Negative One? at the QFQI Conference, Decoherence & Friends, May 2013.

Physics Quantum Mechanics Quantum Foundations & Emergent Spacetime Quantum Measurement, Decoherence & Many-Worlds Entanglement & Quantum Information Complex Analysis QFQI Conference