I thought the math was utterly absurd until I read this and went “Oh, THAT’S what a complex number is? Gee, no wonder they’re used in this!”
I got it off the comment threads on one of the QM sequences, and apparently it helped a lot of people there. You seem to have already found your own solution, but I figure it doesn’t hurt to at least mention something that worked for a lot of others :)
http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide-to-imaginary-numbers/
I thought the math was utterly absurd until I read this and went “Oh, THAT’S what a complex number is? Gee, no wonder they’re used in this!”
I got it off the comment threads on one of the QM sequences, and apparently it helped a lot of people there. You seem to have already found your own solution, but I figure it doesn’t hurt to at least mention something that worked for a lot of others :)
Woah.