Complex Numbers
A complex number is expressed in the standard form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is defined by i^2 = -1 (that is, i is the square root of -1). For example, 3 + 2i is a complex number.
The bi term is often referred to as an imaginary number (though this may be misleading, as it is no more "imaginary" than the symbolic abstractions we know as the "real" numbers). Thus, every complex number has a real part, a, and an imaginary part, bi.
Complex numbers are often represented on a graph known as the "complex plane," where the horizontal axis represents the infinity of real numbers, and the vertical axis represents the infinity of imaginary numbers. Thus, each complex number has a unique representation on the complex plane: some closer to real; others, more imaginary. If a = b, the number is equal parts real and imaginary.
Very simple transformations applied to numbers in the complex plane can lead to fractal structures of enormous intricacy and astonishing beauty.
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In time, and once the bugs (possibly literal) are worked out, I think it's a great idea. Of course, twenty-five to fifty years down the road it's likely they'll find some kind of adverse health problems related to eating bio-meats, but if it's not that it would be something else. Life is like that and the answer isn't to not try, it's to push forward and overcome.
Will we (you and I) ever see the day every home has a food replicator in it instead of a microwave? Probably not, but it would not only solve a lot of food related issues, it would also solve a lot of problems of what to do with our waste products...
Just think, back in the mid seventeen hundreds, Ole Ben had himself an electric BBQ; he stunned the turkey, shocked himself and cooked the bird on a gadget called an electric jack. Personally, I think he should have used a pellet smoker.
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