[stultifying]

The really interesting part in all this, is that we're still reduced to bouncing values off of imaginary numbers to obtain accurate readings.

We toss our known quantities into a void, anticipating that if some impossible, imaginary thing really can fill the gap, and if or when it does, we'll catch the rebound off of it, and the rest of the universe proceeds predictably.

Somehow, we're always put into a position where we have to close our eyes, fly blind for some undisclosed intervening moment of unspecified length, and when we open our eyes again, we're grounded by familiar territory again.

It really is kind of stultifying.