The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 7 months agoThey keep digging that hole deeperlemmy.worldimagemessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1844arrow-down136
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minus-squareYondozalinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 months agoOops my bad, it’s been a while. I thought the Hamiltonian used quaternions, but I guess that’s just complex numbers.
minus-squarelinja@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoThe Hamiltonian using Hamilton’s numbers? Now I think about it it is a bit silly that two entirely separate yet highly propinquitous concepts have such similar names. Physics really went downhill once humans started writing it down.
Oops my bad, it’s been a while. I thought the Hamiltonian used quaternions, but I guess that’s just complex numbers.
The Hamiltonian using Hamilton’s numbers? Now I think about it it is a bit silly that two entirely separate yet highly propinquitous concepts have such similar names. Physics really went downhill once humans started writing it down.