Posted on 12/08/2001 2:26:08 PM PST by ambrose
Back in 2nd grade when learning our solar and that the Universe was all there was I questioned to myself and in my minds eye that there was something beyond the Universe. Fifteen years latter I pictured a soup bowl theory of multiple universes. A year later I happened onto an article in the newspaper that explained how several scientist postulate that there were multiple universes. I was floored because what the article described was so close to what I had pictured. Similar pictures I've had since have showed up latter in scientist hypothesis.
(pi)1/2 is the correct answer and it's exact!
I guess you reached that conclusion since both Pi and the death tax are irrational?
One must wonder how long before the Libertarians here will insist that taking anyone's square root violates the Fourth, Fifth, and Tenth Amendments. Or before someone gets confused over the difference in square roots and quartering and see a Third Amendment violation as well. My personal take on this is that either the CFR or the Illuminati assassinated Kennedy to make sure the "real square root" will never be known.
It doesn't exist as there is no number that can be squared to equal a negative number, however, we can imagine such a number even though it cannot exist on the number line. We can use any reference we choose to designate such an imaginary number, ergo, I use i.
There are practical uses for i in scientific calculations as one can have the i's cancel out and come up with an answer that is a real number.
Infinitesimal? I think the word you were looking for was "transcendental".
A CAT scan of my poor brain would reveal a hole where most people have their math ability.
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If you are a mathematician then the square root of -1 is i, if you are an electrical engineer it is j.
I recall reading recently that certain Hubble Telescope observations were putting the squeeze on the sphere and saddle models, and that generally flat space (with gravitational variations around matter) was the way of the future...
And the past.
Algebraic alphabet soup?
BTW, multiverse theories are commonplace, and go back to at least the Greeks.
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