Negative and Imaginary Numbers

By Kim Dong-ryul · Original publication: February 3, 2026

English translation · Original: https://gujoron.com/xe/notice/1786933

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If aphantasia exists, perhaps “a-gujoronia” exists too. Some people simply cannot think structurally. In fact, they are the majority. I give up trying to persuade them. If they cannot do it, what can one do? Communication between us fails. You cannot discuss colors with someone whose color vision is impaired. Only those who can think structurally should come here.

Nature contains only natural numbers. Negative and imaginary numbers are human concepts. Why, then, do we draw negative numbers on the opposite side from positive numbers? Because of paper. Because people write horizontally. Because we think linearly and habitually arrange everything along a line.

Stacking things vertically takes up space and is awkward on a typewriter—though we manage it perfectly well with fractions. I cannot understand people who find imaginary numbers hard to represent. It is not as if I can ask, “Are you a complete blockhead?” All it takes is a slight change in the direction of thought. In Gujoron, imaginary numbers follow automatically.

Why? Gujoron proceeds through “system, body, angle, line, point,” so a system must stand above a body. The familiar three-dimensional solid corresponds to the body. Unless negative and positive bodies are placed in parallel, the system cannot be established. Thought must begin from the system, so refusing imaginary numbers causes problems. I do not know enough mathematics to take the explanation further.

In Gujoron, the universe is waves. Imaginary numbers are indispensable for explaining waves. If you do not understand, think of a balance scale. It has two bodies. You already understand. Look at the picture above: two rectangular columns, like the two pans of a balance arranged in parallel. A world in which squaring produces a negative is inevitable.

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Still do not understand? Drop dead. Anyone looking at this picture can intuitively see that it represents alternating current. Think about why there are three wires on a utility pole. Gujoron concerns a world we experience countless times in everyday life: the relationship between a lever's effort point and load point. Because the human body itself is a lever, even someone who has never used one can understand.