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[–] Cattail@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Don't you have to conjugate the ket? Like I don't think braket is dot multiplication

[–] cooligula@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can assume a and b are real to make the joke make sense.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 1 points 3 days ago

You can extend the dot product to imaginary fields, there are a couple of standard extractions. If I remember correctly (but my quantum physics background is really poor, so I’m ready to be proven wrong) the one compatible with the bra-ket notation is

a dot b := sum_i conj(a)_i b_i

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The current administration has removed all genders from science, so all verb stems are now uninflected in the quantum tense, sorry.

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

THIS SIMPLE TRICK RAISED $1M STARTUP MONRY (100% GUARANTEED)

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Investor money embezzlement speedrun any%

[–] the_beber@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago

Oh the duality!

[–] Mgineer@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Took me too long to decipher the field