Weird how magic and mystery stops being magic when scientists have words for it.

One day we’ll discover the afterlife, but we’ll just call them “Post-Human Conciousness Wells” or something, and insist it totally isn’t the same thing as that ancient superstition.

Cmon, you wanna tell me the world is purely material when our math literally uses imaginary numbers to make sense of things?

Imaginary numbers are merely a poorly named mathematical construct used to reconcile the empirically observable phenomena of nature (e.g., summations of waves). They’re the means by which we achieve mathematical closure under exponentiation. You could call them whatever the F you want, so long as they could be used to represent vectors in the complex plane.

What reason do you have to believe in anything outside of material nature?

Up to the introduction of quantum mechanics imaginary numbers where only ever a theoretical tool and any calculation in electromagnetism, mechanics or even relativity can be done without them.

Also, any measurement you can make will always result in real numbers because there is no logical interpretation for imaginary measurements (a speed of 2+i m/s doesnt really make sense)

Imaginary numbers are indeed poorly named. They are not much more imaginary than members of ℝ.

It’s all fine… except for the part where reality has a √-1 component.

Well, in AC circuits, having √3̅+√-̅1̅ A of current makes as much sense as having 2 amps with a 60° phase shift. It’s just easier notation for calculations - Cartesian coordinates for what would otherwise be polar.