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Question: Do you believe in √(-1)?
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Gustaf
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« on: May 24, 2009, 08:45:36 AM »
Yes. But I am religious. Wink

Seriously though I think some of these concepts are mystic by nature. The human mind (or at least my mind) cannot comprehend many of the concepts used in modern matehmatics and physics. Sure, I can follow the proofs and I can use it (I owned imaginary numbers back when we had exams on it) but I can't really wrap my mind around it and get it. It is about as mystic to me as God. Tongue
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Gustaf
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« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2009, 10:59:29 AM »
Quote from: Vander Blubb on June 03, 2009, 01:01:46 AM
No.  Imaginary numbers are, by definition, imaginary, i.e. products of the imagination.  Therefore, they are not real; if they were, they would be real numbers.  Since the square root of -1 is clearly not a real number but an imaginary number, then by its very definition it cannot exist.

All abstractions are products of the imagination.
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