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What if a nuclear bomb was detonated in Marianas Trench? + Imaginary numbers intro - C C - Jul 24, 2018
What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench? (video)
https://youtu.be/9tbxDgcv74c
EXCERPT: Did you ever wonder what happened if you detonated a nuclear bomb in the Marianas Trench? Would it cause tsunamis, or would it rip a hole in the Earth's surface?
A brief introduction to imaginary numbers
http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/maths/brief-introduction-imaginary-numbers
EXCERPT: . . . Like so many developments in mathematics, all of this was of purely academic interest until the modern electronic age. Complex numbers turn out to be incredibly useful in analysing anything that comes in waves, such as the electromagnetic radiation we use in radios and wifi, audio signals for music and voice communication and alternating current power supplies. Equally, quantum physics reduces all particles to waveforms, meaning that complex numbers are instrumental in understanding this strange world that has allowed us to enjoy modern computers, fibre-optics, GPS, MRI imaging, to name but a few. Thank goodness that mathematicians, from 500 years ago to the present day, decided that imaginary numbers were worth investigating after all.
MORE: http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/maths/brief-introduction-imaginary-numbers