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Complex numbers seem to have an almost mystical aura surrounding them. Perhaps it’s because of the terminology used for them – for example, they have a ‘real part’ and an ‘imaginary part’, and they ...

The Milky Way, a small part of a universe filled with countless galaxies, highlighted the challenge of estimating galaxy numbers. Despite advanced telescopes, only 3% of the universe is observable.

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Real and imaginary: The time-dependent Schrödinger equation formulated using complex numbers. (Courtesy: iStock/piranka) Complex numbers are essential to achieve the most accurate quantum-mechanical ...

The transition from real to complex numbers marked a significant shift in physics, particularly in quantum mechanics. Recent research has shown that using real numbers in quantum predictions leads to ...

An international team of researchers shows through a concrete theoretical experiment that the prediction by standard complex quantum theory cannot be expressed by its real counterpart and ratifies its ...

Mathematicians were disturbed, centuries ago, to find that calculating the properties of certain curves demanded the seemingly impossible: numbers that, when multiplied by themselves, turn negative.