Some of the participants in the bogus “March for Science” were carrying signs implying that “imaginary” numbers (e.g, the square root of minus one) are not real, and are equivalent to Trump’s statements and policies.
They’re wrong!!!!
Note especially the statement:
“Imaginary numbers come up a lot in electricity and magnetism equations, as well as optics. Basically anything that moves as a wave, like the surface of a body of water or the EM field of an electron or photon, will often be written in terms of sine and cosine, which in turn can be written as imaginary powers of e.”
Never trust “science” or “math” touted by globalist activists and Dims!!!!
As a matter of vernacular, that is correct. A complex number has a real part and an imaginary part, and the two parts are in fact distinctly different.
Been there done that! Believe it or not I could never get those energy equations which are always integral sorted out in my head until I mastered the math functions on Microsoft Excel...proving that Bill Gates bought the code vice developed it!
They are also regularly used in quaternion-based math, which is the most efficient way to model 3d motion, used regularly in 3d graphics for video games:
https://www.3dgep.com/understanding-quaternions/