By Klinging-on
This is inspired by the recent [quanta article](https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-take-the-imaginary-numbers-out-of-quantum-mechanics-20251107/) on how Physicists took the i out of Schrodinger's equation. However, they replaced i with a structure isomorphic to the complex numbers, so did nothing change? I'm curious why Quantum physics even needs complex numbers at all. In the article, it said Schrodinger didn't like the i in his wave function and wanted to get rid of it. Why isn't this p