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Old 24-03-2011, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by CraigS View Post
So apart from making the maths easier to handle, it also helps to determine the constants.
I'd imagine determining the constants would be pretty interesting and could tell us very interesting things (??)
(I'm close to being out of my depth here )

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There two different issues here Craig.

The integration constants relate to the normalization of a wavefunction, in Quantum Mechanics. It doesn't simplify the mathematics.

Normalising the Planck units allows a simpler mathematical format to be used, particularly in Quantum Field theory. One of the problems in mathematics is not only the computational side, but writing the mathematics down can be horrendously complicated.
A simpler format allows the logical structure to be more easily discerned and errors in the mathematics to be detected.

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Steven
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