Physics Seminar: Prof. William Wootters:
Why does nature like the square root of negative one?

N-823

Place: Namm 823 Date: Thursday, March 31 2016 Time: 12:00 PM   Presented by Prof. William Wootters Faculty and students are welcome.   Abstract: Quantum mechanics is a probabilistic theory, but the way we compute probabilities in quantum mechanics is quite different from what one would expect from, say, rolling dice or tossing coins.  To get a quantum probability,