imaginary numbers are also a horribly misnamed fiction. For decades, my dad was mesmerised by how if you plugged in a bigger than c value into the lorentz transformations (he had long since forgotten the form of the transformation) you would become "imaginary". To set him straight, I asked him, if instead we named them "Green" numbers, would you become "green" if you went faster than the speed of light?
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imaginary numbers are also a horribly misnamed fiction. For decades, my dad was mesmerised by how if you plugged in a bigger than c value into the lorentz transformations (he had long since forgotten the form of the transformation) you would become "imaginary". To set him straight, I asked him, if instead we named them "Green" numbers, would you become "green" if you went faster than the speed of light?