Experimental Test of Hyper-Complex Quantum Theories

Understand

In standard quantum mechanics, complex numbers are used to describe the wavefunction.

• Although complex numbers have proven sufficient to predict the results of existing experiments, there is no apparent theoretical reason to choose them over real numbers or generalizations of complex numbers, i.e.
• hyper-complex numbers.
• Experiments performed to date have proven that real numbers are insufficient, but whether or not hyper-complex numbers are required remains an open question.