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Imaginary numbers are a helpful tool for calculating things in our universe. All these holographic theories and their insights are based on a universe that beha
by sigmoid10 4mo ago
Imaginary numbers are a helpful tool for calculating things in our universe. All these holographic theories and their insights are based on a universe that behaves basically opposite to ours.
- Erem 4mo agoFrom Wikipedia, imaginary numbers... > Originally coined in the 17th century by René Descartes[4] as a derogatory term and regarded as fictitious or useless, the concept gained wide acceptance following the work of Leonhard Euler in the 18th century, and Augustin-Louis Cauchy and Carl Friedrich Gauss in the early 19th century. I think the jury is still out wrt utility of AdS spaces. They could be useless toys, or they could be in the Descartes phase rn.
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