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S. W. Hamilton; A. Gsponer

Corpus ID: 59934166

0 20 10 58 v 2 2 8 N ov 2 00 2 THE PHYSICAL HERITAGE OF

@inproceedings{Hamilton2006021,
  title={0 20 10 58 v 2 2 8 N ov 2 00 2 THE PHYSICAL HERITAGE OF},
  author={S. W. Hamilton and A. Gsponer},
  year={2006}
}

S. W. Hamilton, A. Gsponer

Published 2006

150 yearsafter the discovery of quaternions, Hamilton’s conjecture hat quaternions are a fundamental language for physics is reeva luated and shown to be essentially correct, provided one admits complex numb ers in both classical and quantum physics, and accepts carrying along t he in ricacies of the relativistic formalism. Examples are given in classi cal dynamics, electrodynamics, and quantum theory. Lanczos’s, Einstein ’ , a d Petiau’s generalizations of Dirac’s equation are shown to be very… CONTINUE READING