Imagination and Real Quantization

Stanislav Ordin

Published Oct 24, 2024• 0 citations

Abstract

This chapter shows that the use of mathematical imaginaries, complex numbers, and even more so quaternions in quantum theory to increase the dimension of solutions of one-dimensional equations is, in principle, incorrect. As a result, Einstein’s condition was violated: SOME equations of classical physics can be rewritten in operator form. The use of correct multidimensional models makes it possible, using the example of the harmonic oscillator, to obtain the Planck-Einstein quantization for da Broglie waves.

DOI: 10.1201/9781003570615-18

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