Posts by Andrew Robinson9

bluebison25 said:Look, the imaginary part of a complex number is just that—imaginary. It’s a conceptual tool, not a physical reality. To me, it's exactly like how people view God in religion. We invented the concept of (i) just to make sense of negative square roots. It's no different than how people invented God to explain things like the Sun or how nature works.

No number is truly "real" in an absolute sense, but we use them because they work. Since both real and complex numbers serve practical purposes, I don't think your comparison is quite right. Still, I get your point, even if I'm splitting hairs a little.

bluebison25 said:Hey rapidbear65 (don't take this personally), I'm not even mad. People call me a villain, a devil worshiper, and god knows what else just because I won't join their massive Christian cult. Honestly, I don't hold it against them.

Look, math doesn't always have to follow the rules of physics—that’s exactly why we have complex numbers to handle square roots of negative values.

I'm not quite sure what you meant by that example, but I should point out that complex numbers are actually used extensively in quantum mechanics.