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From: bb... Bob Bell
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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mkel...@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu (Matt Kellner) wrote:

>"Han" <nguye...@ems.prc.com> wrote:

>Working with things in the complex/imaginary plane is not regarded as
>"an impossibility" to those who know how to do it. It's the barrier
>between Real and Imaginary that causes problems.  (Try graphing y=1/x
>or y=tan x to see what I'm talking about.  You could do a
>complex/imaginary plot of 1/sqrt(x), but it would still be undefined
>(ie. impossible) at x=0, because 1/0 is undefined.

>>I never took anything past Multi-var, so if anyone can enlighten me on the
>>practical applications of complex numbers I'd be happy to take it in.

	Being a computer science major, math major, and physics minor,
I'd like to comment (slight boasting over).  Tachyons are indeed
theoretical particles that, if the existed, would travel faster than
the speed of light.  It is true that the problem is the barrier
between real and imaginary.  HOWEVER, tachyons might exist, travelling
faster than the speed of light, having an imaginary mass, and having
the speed of light as a LOWER boundary.  That is, they can never
travel slower than the speed of light.
	All theoretical of course :)  I'm not sure what implications
there are.

	Bob

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From: bb...@voicenet.com (Bob Bell)
Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant...
Date: 1997/02/12
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