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I posed
riddle, how do you create a diagram of
Gamma function when it spirals in one place and not in
other?
I solved that riddle with a surprising answer. NATURE IN THIS CONTEXT REJECTS THE IMAGINARY. There is no solution to
Gamma Function if you use complex maths. There is no complex space.
That is to say,
square root of -1 has two answers, but Nature insists that you must take them BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.
This is quite different to
roots of real numbers. The roots of 4 are 2 *OR* -2.
The roots of -1 are i1 *AND* -i1. Take BOTH or NONE, in
case of
Gamma Function. Otherwise,
riddle is insoluble.
But i1 makes
spiral go left whilst -i1 makes
spiral go right. Making
spiral go equally left and right will STOP it from spiralling. So both is
equivalent of none. Nature has REJECTED
imaginary.
At this point I wrote (http://www.wehner.org/euler/solution.htm ) that "If it can be shown for other functions unrelated to
Gamma function, and having a negation function, that Nature rejects
imaginary axis in this way, then it can be said that Nature rejects complex mathematics as a human product. "
I had not expected that Nature would then reveal to me a function that rejects
imaginary axis without having a negation function. It is
INVERSE function to
exponential. That is to say, it is
LOGARITHM.
From
first page above, you can visualise Euler's equation for
exponential (exp(i X) = cos(X) + i sin(X)) as a spiral. You can see that exp(i Pi) gives -1. So does exp (i 3Pi). So does exp (i 5Pi). So do ALL
odd imaginary multiples of Pi. So do all
negative values of those odd imaginary multiples.
So
log of -1 is ALL of those positive and negative odd imaginary multiples of Pi. It does not really matter whether they are AND or OR. It only matters that they are there.
I then considered
logarithm of zero. This is known to be MINUS INFINITY.
But what of MINUS ZERO? This may seem like a silly question, but it is not. We have considered
log of any negative number to be
log of
positive equivalent plus one or more odd imaginary multiples of Pi. So
log of minus zero will be minus infinity just like
log of zero - but with a DIFFERENCE.
For all
negative numbers,
logarithm is as for
positive but TOGETHER WITH THE SERRIED RANKS OF ODD IMAGINARY PIs. As
numbers rise, they get closer and closer towards zero, and
real part of
logarithm goes downwards towards minus infinity.
Then they hit zero. Those serried ranks of imaginary numbers STOP. That's it! They VANISH.
One would call this a SINGULARITY, but it is more than that. There are INFINITE odd imaginary multiples of Pi, and they ALL stop together at
point X=0.
So Nature again is REFUSING
imaginary.
Natural laws tend to flow smoothly throughout
number continuum. For an entire family of numbers - all odd imaginary multiples of Pi - and therefore by inference a whole SET -
set of all imaginary - to stop is quite unnatural.
So
imaginary numbers are
imaginings of Humankind. Nature does not imagine.
Charles Douglas Wehner

Born in 1944, Charles Wehner is an electronics engineer, technical author and former factory manager.