This is not possible because different particles oscillate with different frequencies, depending on their energy. And though it would be possible to make a "standing wave universe" work by simply adding a universe to its complex conjugate, writing it as a sum is probably the shortest way to write this universe, so it's not like we actually got rid of complex numbers in any equations.
This is not possible because different particles oscillate with different frequencies, depending on their energy.
The universe oscillates with exactly one frequency as it moves through configuration space.
As for why it looks like different particles have different frequencies, I'm not sure. Apparently, I don't understand entanglement as well as I thought I did.
...And though it would be possible to make a "standing wave universe" work by simply adding a universe to its complex conjugate, writing it as a sum is probably the shortest way to write t
Timeless physics is what you end up with if you take MWI, assume the universe is a standing wave, and remove the extraneous variables. From what I understand, for the most part you can take a standing wave and add a time-reversed version, you end up with a standing wave that only uses real numbers. The problem with this is that the universe isn't quite time symmetric.
If I ignore that complex numbers ever were used in quantum physics, it seems unlikely that complex numbers is the correct solution. Is there another one? Should I be reversing charge and parity as well as time when I make the standing real-only wave?