ashish arora
ashish arora
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https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ashish-arora
if so, you will be in a hole
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Reposted by ashish arora
I hinted at some possible answers near the end of the story, but I think the jury is very much still out.

Anyways, if you're curious, here's the story:
Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics | Quanta Magazine
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
fat chance
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Only if it surplus to requirement :)
November 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Funny how some things stay with you. Nearly forty years later, I still cannot bring myself to use "enable" as an intransitive verb, the result of aforesaid thesis advisor.
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM