{"id":240652,"date":"2026-07-11T07:21:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/quantum-mechanics-may-not-need-imaginary-numbers-after-all"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:21:55","slug":"quantum-mechanics-may-not-need-imaginary-numbers-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/quantum-mechanics-may-not-need-imaginary-numbers-after-all","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Mechanics May Not Need Imaginary Numbers After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-mechanics-may-not-need-imaginary-numbers-after-all.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have shown that imaginary numbers may not be fundamentally required in quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have shown that imaginary numbers may not be fundamentally required in quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}