Zack_M_Davis comments on How accurate is the quantum physics sequence? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 19 April 2012 07:23:59AM *  0 points [-]

Could you or someone please give me some background info, so that I can better understand the current state of understanding of the role of complex numbers

I did (on the physical usefulness and non-mysteriousness of complex numbers, not quantum mechanics specifically).

Comment author: Will_Newsome 19 April 2012 07:39:44AM 1 point [-]

And thanks for that, but I'm interested in their role in QM specifically. I don't have an objection to complex numbers, I just want to know what they're doing, if you see what I mean.