Question
This method, when applied to the heat equation, yields the Schrodinger equation. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this action named after an Italian physicist, which constructs a solution to a problem in Minkowski space by finding a similar solution to a problem in Euclidean space.
ANSWER: Wick rotation [prompt on rotation]
[10e] The preservation of unitarity after a Wick rotation is called a “positivity” of this phenomenon. A law of this phenomenon states that its namesake angle should be equal to the incidence angle.
ANSWER: reflection [accept reflection positivity; accept law of reflection; accept angle of reflection or reflection angle]
[10m] Wick rotations can relate statistical and quantum mechanics by an “imaginary” form of this quantity. The conflict between quantum mechanics and general relativity gives this quantity’s namesake “problem.”
ANSWER: time [accept imaginary time; accept the problem of time]
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