Ancient
In ancient times many people may
have assumed the world was flat
(or slightly rounded like a turtle's back).
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The first part of this course looks at the idea of absolute directions of space and and the idea that time flows at the same pace (and direction) for everyone.
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We look at the concepts of types of numbers, and introduce the creation of number systems and multi-valued numbers such as vectors and matrices; and the creation of new types of numbers through the introduction of new operations.
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We introduce the concept of holographic and shadow projection; and other translations such as rotations using circular (or hyperbolic) trig functions.
Antiquity
This is done as grounding for the concept of imaginary numbers, which cause the weirder aspects of physics.
Types of Numbers - Slide #1
Bits to Twistors
1. Familiar Numbers
Most numbers we use in our everyday life such as odd, even, counting, decimal and negative numbers lie on the real number line. Coincidentally these Real Numbers apply to things we see in our supposedly Real world.
Things that we observe seem to fall on discrete countable values of minimal possible amounts of things. Every thing we observe measure in a whole number of these values. The terms "Planck values", "Quanta" or "packets" may be used depending on the context.
To fully understand both familiar and less used numbers we may need to start at some of the simplest types of numbers and work our way up
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