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• SmoothOperator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It lets us apply results from statistical physics to quantum field theory through a Wick rotation.

    That sounds like Geordi’s plan to save the Enterprise.

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    • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      we need a pause, then have them explain it in an easy metaphor.

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’ve got to route it through the deflector dish.

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    • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I now want to see a TNG/John Wick crossover.

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    • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Or AI slop trained on Geordi

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  • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And you’re trying to tell me that’s not a magic spell you just said? Pfff

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  • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, duh!

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• LynneOfFlowers@midwest.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Come on, this has been a thing for the last 19+12i years

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Regular time is imaginary! Well assuming it was Minkovsky spacetime they were talking about.

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• LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shhhhhh if you’re too loud, someone will try to monetize it

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yhea, but then you get paid in imaginary money

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• algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can have as many dimensions as you want, just keep taking the integral

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  • tiddy@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can make as many dimensions as you want as long as you clean them up when youre done

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    • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can only build one megastructure at a time

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• Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh, you can interpretate anti-matter as either matter that has negative energy and travels forward in time, or matter with positive energy that travels backwards in time, and both interpretation are valid under Dirac’s equation.

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  • Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh, that’s the guy with the private lake, right?

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  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think you mean charge not energy.

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    • Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nope. Anti-matter comes as a negative energy density solution to Dirac’s equation

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I keep running out of regular time already, now you tell me I need to keep track of perpendicular time?

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  • FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah but it’s easy, just take the sine of regular time and you’re set.

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    • WR5@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought you had to find the square root of negative time to get it?

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• RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m still trying to understand perpendicular time

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  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The easiest way I can explain it is like this: All the sci-fi geeks in the world are familiar with parallel timelines, right? The idea that there’s another RymrgandsDaughter out there living in a world where apes with goatees are the “people” but otherwise pretty much everything else is very similar to how things are for us here and now. But like in perpendicular time, nearly everything is completely different than this current timeline, and yet somehow there’s a point within where I, Gooberear, took the time out of my morning to completely make up this explanation from thin air and which has no basis in actual fact or reality. The end.

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    • AugustWest@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Something something nineteen ninety eight

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    • RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn I wanna meet this ape goatee woman now

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  • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A particle is also a wave, a wave moves back and forth between -X and X passing 0 every time.

    Now, when you measure this particle and it happens to be at zero, sometimes it moves towards X afterwards and sometimes it moves towards -X.

    For the scientists however, all they can measure is that it’s at 0 and half the time it randomly goes one way or the other with 50/50 probability.

    To explain this, scientists imagine the particle has more than 0, but it has a secret momentum hidden into it telling it to deflect positively or negatively.

    Imagine a circle instead of a line. Now instead of crossing zero, you rotate around 0 and hit a Y and -Y axis with X and -X unchanged.

    That y axis that contains the hidden momentum of the particle is called “imaginary” because scientists love loaded terms that are unhelpful to understanding lol.

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    • RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why are they rotating it? I almost understood until you got there

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The obvious interpretation is that it is 0 real time. Safely ignore, I’d say.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can people please realize that saying Idiocracy is a documentary is agreeing with eugenicists

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    • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People living in a society that de-prioritizes and under-funds public education:

      is-this Is this the result of Undesirables breeding?

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    • ech@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fallen into several arguments in Lemmy about exactly that. I have no hard feelings at Mike Judge or even the movie really, but it’s fiction, not a warning from the future. Honestly, people need to stop treating fiction as documentary evidence. At best it’s interesting thought experiments, not something one should base their world view on.

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• Lemmisaur@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I tried to get multiple physicists to help me mine this imaginary time, but they all said that it was “impossible” and that it’s “not how time works” or something.

  I guess people just really don’t want to jump on this money-making bandwagon.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Just keeping asking until someone (a go getter) gives you the answer you want.

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• jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  you can have imaginary anything. just imagine it! i especially like imaginary unicorns

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For clarity, are you imagining imaginary unicorns or just regular non-imaginary unicorns?

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      it’s actually the square root of a negative unicorn, duh!

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All potential realities of time are happening at once, you are just perceiving one slice of it.

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• MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I couldn’t conceive of such a thing!

  t \rightarrow i\tau

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• KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If it makes you feel any better - ALL “time” is imaginary. Time is a human construct that has no meaning outside of human endeavor.

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I guess the tauon decays of its own volition then.

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    • swab148@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I know I do

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  • Fluke@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Time is as imaginary as up/down, left/right, forward/backward.

    That is to say that the concept and it’s consequences exist no matter what we call it. Time is not a human thing, it’s one of the dimensions of the space in which we exist. Calling it “time” and a “second” being as many vibrations of a caesium as it is, that’s the human bit.

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• verstra@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • BB84@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a math trick. Not a physical theory.

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    • exasperation@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup. Electrical engineering does something similar. The addition and subtraction of voltages, currents, resistance, capacitance, and inductance in AC circuits is basically unworkable without the shortcut of converting the sinusoidal waves into imaginary phase angles and doing math on them, and then converting them back to sinusoidal waves as necessary.

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• omega_x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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