But this resembles the math community's much earlier hatred of Poincare'
infinities, then their earlier hatred of irrationals, and even earlier
hatred of negative numbers. (I remember being in third grade, and having
to tolerate negative numbers while holding my nose; being sure that I'd
grow up to invent a way to avoid ever using them. Gradually I became
accustomed to the stench. Looks like Schrodinger was the same, regarding
complex numbers.)
Lewis Caroll Dodgson, lover of all things Euclidian, is rumored to have
despised Imaginary numbers, and built criticism into Alice in Wonderland:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427391-600-alices-adventures-in-algebra-wonderland-solved/
Never forget, we can't have Mandelbrot set without the imaginary axis.
(Well we CAN, but then it becomes ...clunky and contrived!)
And also, everyone knows that pi is actually made from ln(-1)/sqrt(-1)
As for the simulated universe in which we are currently embedded, lots of
computation could be avoided by its algorithms, if they hold their noses
and lower themselves to employing Imaginary numbers. But that layer seems
accessible only indirectly by human perceptions? We experience it as
phase in waves. (A square wave is the same thing as a delta function
impulse, if phase between spectrum peaks is unimportant!)
Also:
The worlds' smartest crow observes two farmers walk into a shed, then
three farmers walk back out again. The crow won't fly down to eat any
corn.
Obviously it's waiting for one farmer to walk back in ...so the shed
becomes empty!
Also:
Two FE-device inventors walk into a bar...
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, H LV wrote:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/imaginary-numbers-may-be-essential-for-describing-reality-20210303/
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