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[[A teacher is standing at a whiteboard covered in equations.]]
Teacher: Okay, anyone who's feeling like they can't handle the physics here should probably just leave now.
Teacher: Because I'm multiplying the wavefunction by its complex conjugate.
Teacher: That's right.
[[Dramatic zoom. It appears the teacher is writing on the side of the panel.]]
Teacher: Shit just got
real
.
{{Title text: Fun fact: if you say this every time a professor does something to a complex-number equation that drops the imaginary part, they'll eventually move the class to another room and tell everyone else except you.}}
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