Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, ...

Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, ...

Quantum mechanics has long relied on complex numbers to describe the strange behavior of particles, from tunneling to ...

To a nonmathematician, having the letter "i" represent a number that does not quite exist and is "imaginary" can be hard to wrap your head around. If you open your mind to this way of thinking, ...

Imaginary numbers are necessary to accurately describe reality, two new studies have suggested. Imaginary numbers are what you get when you take the square root of a negative number, and they have ...