Tom Ritchford
2 min readFeb 14, 2022

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On one side we have all of mathematics for the last 300 years - mathematics that has been completely essential for all the technology we see. In particular, all of electrical engineering relies on using imaginary numbers.

On the other side we have - you!, who are claiming that all mathematicians and engineers for the last three hundred years have been stupid delusional fools.

You offer no explanation of how this completely false science has built our entire civilization. You yourself don't have any new results or discoveries to offer.

What is appalling is the arrogance. Faced with the inability to understand basic mathematics, you immediately jump to, "Every mathematician and scientist for the last three hundred years has been a delusional idiot and I alone know the truth."

And you expect us to believe you! You don't have even one actual result to show. Our science built airplanes, took us to the moon, created computers and the Internet; your science has created nothing at all.

People like you were much funnier twenty years ago, before we saw the actual consequences of the combination of total ignorance and an unshakeable conviction that everyone else is wrong.

Now I see you a symbol of the triumph of empty ego and towering arrogance over reasoning, knowledge, and science.

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It's not too late to come back to consensus reality. And I'm not a young guy - I've met many people like you before. Some of them recovered - the rest of them ended up being lonely, miserable, angry, delusional old people - every single one of them. And that will certainly be your fate if you don't turn back from this path.

Math, engineering and science are civilized and rewarding professions - professions that will always be out of your reach with your false mathematics that doesn't do the job.

Mathematics is beautiful, and complex analysis is one of the most beautiful parts of mathematics. As math goes, it isn't really hard but it has some dramatic ideas that are initially shocking.

When I was about 10, I read about Euler's Identity and I thought, "Well, this is obviously not true. It's like some poem that mathematicians made up, but you couldn't do actual calculations with it."

However, the difference between you and I is that I continued over the next ten years to try to figure out what mathematicians actually meant by this and finally I succeeded.

More, I discovered that every single log and trig table was calculated using the same body of knowledge, and that even eighteenth century technology would have been impossible without complex numbers.

Snap out of it, man! You owe it to your future self to come back to consensus reality and not waste your life on delusional beliefs!

Good luck.

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