• SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    TBF imaginary time is a math trick and not something that actually progresses. It lets us apply results from statistical physics to quantum field theory through a Wick rotation.

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    17 days ago

    Imaginary time are used by a lot of companies in form of your unpaid overtimes

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    18 days ago

    A huge portion of Americans aren’t sure the earth is round and ‘idiocracy’ is fictional.

    I’m okay with the more esoteric things being reserved for those who can comprehend them.

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    16 days ago

    Regular time is imaginary! That’s what’s differentiate time from space. Well assuming it was Minkowski spacetime they were talking about.

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    18 days ago

    My quick guess would be that this a theory that explain some weird phenomenon we don’t have a good explanation for yet. Like how we observe that stars and galaxies don’t orbit as they should and then say that there is “dark mass” which is responsible.

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    17 days ago

    It also works that the exact position of an object could also be complex so an imaginary and real location.