I have explained, for a long time already...

I have explained, for a long time already, that there are most often, in science, two inappropriate attitudes. The first consists of not believing anything at all, the second consists of believing everything without using one's little gray cells (Hercule Poirot copyrights).
It is true that in most cases, teachers are right, and therefore one must believe them. But it sometimes happens that, dramatically, not clearly understanding the concepts they teach, or the words they pronounce, they do more harm than good.
Sometimes, it is the very bases that are at fault. There are two concepts that, in essence are not so bad, but which very quickly drift towards stupidity and incomprehension. The first is the principle of special relativity, the second the apprehension of complex numbers. Each time, as if by intellectual gravitation the human mind not of a few men, but of all men will go astray.
Let us take the example of the theory of relativity taught by Poincaré, everything that Poincaré says is correct, everything that Einstein adds to it is false.
Let us take the example of complex numbers, what mathematicians say about how to solve a quadratic equation without real roots is correct, but, beyond that, everything becomes false and ridiculous.
In this the proofs abound, but we do not want to see the proofs.
Why?
Because human narcissism is such, and the trust that men have in other men so strong, that it is absolutely impossible in practice to correct even an obvious and gross error if it has been accepted for centuries.
Ask a fanatic Muslim to question his Koran, and what will you notice? He goes mad. They are his knife.
It is the same with physicists and mathematicians all over the world. 99% of their science is right, but point out where it is dark and ridiculous, and you will be mocked, hated, threatened, ostracized.
I have pointed out two enormous problems in science, not located in inaccessible places, but in two places known to all those who have at least a high school diploma.
One consists in explaining the enormous confusion that physicists make between the relativity of time, and the relativity of chronotropy, a source of immense generalized misunderstandings; the other in the very nature of the imaginary number i, which everyone uses, but with the greatest incomprehension of what it really is. We limit ourselves to saying that it is such that i²=-1. Which is not wrong, but which is immensely far from the correct definition, which has the effect of a slap, so extravagant does it seem to the mathematician. "the imaginary number i is that being which, in its being, is such that whatever the exponent x that is assigned to it, i^x=-1. A very clear definition, but which makes all of humanity tremble with fear, rubbing its eyes at the evidence, and cannot believe that it sees what it sees.
R.H.