Complex Numbers Explained: Quantum Physics & Imaginary Numbers!

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He says, "I have a complex problem. Um, it's the complex number I. It's the square root of -1, which doesn't exist, but it is used in so much math that predicts things accurately, including quantum. It fries my brain. I hope Neil and Grant can help me out.

Thanks." Yeah. So, so Grant, I'm going to lead off by saying, why did you label those numbers imaginary? My god, it's the worst name in all. Worst name ever. Gaus proposed calling them lateral numbers, which would have been, you know, a little better. And then and then then you add another aspect to the imaginary number to get the complex