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		OkayPhysicist on April 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish som... Imaginary numbers, pretty much everywhere in physics, represent an extra dimension. e^ix results in a unit vector spinning around.

ur-whale on April 29, 2020 [–]

Thanks for your answer, but that doesn't really cut it for me. For example, if complex numbers are so "natural" at modeling rotations, why don't they show up e.g. in Maxwell's equations ?

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