Exactly! There's a quote from a famous mathematician at the time that the negatives "Darken the very whole doctrines of the equations". If positive is good, negative must be evil right? And how can "less than nothing" exist? I love the philosophical implications of it.

Ugh, tell me about the naming. "Imaginary numbers?" How about "rotated numbers". Nobody complains "Hey, when will I ever use the second dimension?". But "imaginary numbers" are setup to be eye-rolled.