I am currently writing an academic paper demonstrating that imaginary numbers cannot exist in this universe...

This is so fucking bad mate holy shit

>0 isn't a number.

Asa opposed to numbers that can?

>I am currently writing an academic paper demonstrating that imaginary numbers cannot exist in this universe
Numbers don't actually exist.
Might as well argue that 1=1, it is the most obvious hypothesis with the most obvious conclusion, leave academia.

>they cannot exist
Of course they can't, numbers aren't real.

That's a good suggestion.
Much better name.
Original with you?
Too late to fix it though.

OP said he was writing an "academic paper", but never said what field he was in.
Certainly not mathematics, probably not in any STEM field, probably not in any subject requiring rigorous logic.
Do I need to "ask permission" to savage his "work"?

>Do I need to "ask permission" to savage his "work"?
One would hope that academia doesn't work that way.

the term "imaginary" was a mistake.
you should study some physics OP.

>they're used for electrical engineering for example which is a very concrete / not just theoretical discipline.
what this guy said
you can do calculations with complex numbers to correctly predict events in the real world

>imaginary numbers cannot exist in this universe
>they still have plenty of applications in real life mathematical physics
hmmm...

imaginary numbers are used to calculate values in even simple circuits

you're an absolute donut