Imaginary numbers might describe the universe

[AProudLefty]

I will take your word for it. The mathematics of the quantum wave function is beyond my mathematical background and education.

Not my word. It's from the article you linked to.

But whether quantum theory needs these mathematical chimeras or just uses them as convenient shortcuts has long been controversial.

 

[AProudLefty]

Maybe we just haven't grasped the gravity of this situation sufficiently...

Even Biden gets it.

 

[Cypress]

Not my word. It's from the article you linked to.

But whether quantum theory needs these mathematical chimeras or just uses them as convenient shortcuts has long been controversial.

Oh yeah!
There is always a flipside to these topics, that's what makes them interesting

 

[T. A. Gardner]

It's nearly all Greek to me...