You laugh now, but just wait 3 years until this morphs into the next right-wing cult conspiracy theory…
God I hate that this is an entirely plausible scenario.
Nah, I'm pretty sure they avoid maths like it's dark magic
And there you have the conspiracy theory. Now all we need is to somehow tie it back to The Jews(tm)
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Look at what mathematicians have been asking your respect for.
"Hello, I would like i potatoes"
How can we trust science when they say things like that?
You think one imaginary number is crazy? Just wait till you learn about quaternions. One real number and 3 imaginary numbers forming a four dimensional coordinate system. It's the basis for quantum mechanics and most video game engines. Who thinks of this shit?
Quaternions? Basis of quantum mechanics? Pretty sure that's not right at all. A lot of games use them for rotations in place of rotation matrices though I suppose.
Iirc, using quaternions for rotations let's you avoid "gimbal locking".
Quaternions are not the basis for quantum mechanics. Biquaternions have some applications in quantum field theory, but there are many areas of quantum mechanics where there's no need or space for anything above complex.
Oops my bad, it's been a while. I thought the Hamiltonian used quaternions, but I guess that's just complex numbers.
The Hamiltonian using Hamilton's numbers? Now I think about it it is a bit silly that two entirely separate yet highly propinquitous concepts have such similar names. Physics really went downhill once humans started writing it down.
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Bro, if you don't like imaginary numbers then just don't imagine them?
I tried that but then i went and got their siblings j and k. They're threatening to burn down my plane. What do I do now?
Add another axis to your game plan.
Also mathematicians making them entirely self-consistent then using them in regular maths until we're all forced to deal with them and accept them as normal
Instead of just admitting they were wrong
But isn't it fascinating that NASA used theoretical math that didn't have an intended use by the mathmaticians that developed it years ago, but it ended up working well with orbital entry calculations?
There's a lot of theoretical math that ends up being very real.
Quaternions? They were used as intended - to represent rotation.
Actually it really looks like physic needs imaginary numbers to accurately explain reality.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-physics-imaginary-numbers-math-reality
This was one of the points of contention with the quantum revolution of the beginning of the 1900's, schrödinger came up with the equation, which fitted like a glove for a lot of scenarios, but it had an imaginary component, which baffled a lot of people since it could imply reality uses such numbers at a fundamental level
"Imaginary" is just a misnomer. Descartes basically ran a smear campaign against them.
That's actually a good point I had never considered! In a way you could consider that "negative numbers are imaginary as well"
And that's never something I considered. You can't see a negative amount of apples. Must be imaginary!
What's really screwy is you can force light to only travel as a evanescent wave. It's completely undetectable without a second interaction, but light must transmit energy using the purely imaginary part of the complex wave.
The imaginary component definitely has some physical meaning, it's not just a useful mathematical trick.
Mathematicians dug up quaternions. Double the imagination. They aren't Complex for comprehention.
Little known fact: the imaginary numbers are the algebraic closure of the irrational numbers.
Yes the obscure and little known fundamental theorem of algebra
Imaginary numbers are math cope for when you're too cool to just use two numbers.
I know this is a joke, but wrong about what, exactly? I don't get it.
Also, and maybe this has something to do with the joke I'm not getting, the way complex numbers are motivated in school is a lie, and a stupid one. Mathematicians were perfectly comfortable with certain equations having no solutions; the problem was when their equations told them there were no solutions when they could see the solutions: the curve x^3^ - 15x + 4 crosses the x-axis, but Cardano's cubic formula gives up due to negative square roots. Imaginary numbers were originally no more than an ephemeral reasoning tool, and were only reluctantly accepted as entities in their own right because of how damn useful they were.
Imaginary numbers were originally no more than an ephemeral reasoning tool, and were only reluctantly accepted as entities in their own right because of how damn useful they were.
That, there, is the story of pretty much all maths. There were occasional mentions of zero and debates about whether it's a number or not in old Europe, it only became widely accepted once base 10 became popular. And people still can't agree whether the natural numbers contain it!
Jujutsu Kaisen characters pulling yet another 'binding vow' out their arse instead of learning to fight better.
It's a long standing shonen tradition of ass-pulling
Fucking pathethic, just admit you're all wrong, they even made a bullshit-number-generator to keep making up new stupid-useless-made-up-numbers that serve no purpose at all in any discipline of science, it's disgusting
And instead of admitting you can not solve a problem prove that it's impossible to solve it
“Taravangian was here”
Taravangian the next day: “What was I thinking?”
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