Riders to The Sea, Odin, part 1

Do you remember that Odin had a missing eye? The Old Testament advised an "eye for an eye" policy.

Here is a mathematical way to delete the "i":

"In talking about wave function in a system's quantum state, psi ( Psi upper case Ψ, lowercase ψ) is the 23rd letter of the Greek Alphabet), there is a way to predict the probability of a particle showing up at a particular place or with particular momentum is given by the square of the amplitude of psi."

In Teleportation, The Impossible Leap by David Darling, page 69, this question is asked "Why the square of the amplitude of psi and not psi itself?"

And he may well ask.

He continues, "Because psi is a complex function - complex in the mathematical sense that it contains terms that involve the square root of minus one √-1, (written as i)...
Using the amplitude (also known as the modulus) is a process that gets rid of all the i's."


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