Cohl Furey sounds like a goddamn new Marvel character, but actually she's a mathematical physicist. Can that really be her name? As a novelist, I feel reality is cheating by being so fucking dramatic:https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720/ …
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Mathematicians like to do endruns around a stuff like this, by pretending there's a solution and giving it a name. Like, let's just _pretend_ there's a number, call it 'i', so that i^2 + 1 = 0, in other words i^2 = -1. Just create it out of thin air and see what happens.
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Ha, OK.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.