MATHEMATICS OF IMAGINARY REALITY

The familiar principle of perversity has been formulated in many ways by many theoreticians throughout history, culminating in the famous Murphy's Law. Recent observers have believed that the perversity factor (P) of the universe is increasing. This observation led to the belief that P, like entropy (En) is a condition rather than an operand like energy. However, further calculation has shown that if En is a description of a reduction in universal energy gradient, then P must be a reduction in something, say anti-P (-P).

Further, it is easy to show that P+(-P) = 0 for the entire reality continuum (R). Therefore, a region of negative perversity or -P must exist with properties negative to those of ordinary Reality, that is, the Murphian universe. At the interface of this universe, IR with ordinarian or Murphian reality (oR), the inter-reality equivalent of Maxwell's demon separates Reality factor null [Rf(0)] into Rf(P) and Rf(-P), the former going to ordinary Reality, the latter to Imaginary Reality.

A more precise and scientific way of stating the above principle is that this interface is the zone in which Reality is generated, the positive component forming the Murphian universe, the negative, the anti-Murphian.

TR=IR+OR where TR is total reality, IR is imaginary reality, and OR is ordinary reality.

In Imaginary Reality, the truth value of information is ordered along a hierarchy such that:

• WAG (Wild Ass Guess) is the lowest
• SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guess), is next
• Theory* is third in the hierarchy with
• Conjecture/Postulate/Theorum next,
• Fact above that and
• Rule above that leaving
• Law of the Universe at the top.

These levels can be distinguished from each other by counting the decimal places. A WAG has no decimals, a SWAG has one, a Statistic has two, and so on to Law of the Universe which has at least five. The more decimals, the more fundamental the Law to the functioning of the universe. A WAG can be elevated to a Law of the Universe by the addition of five decimal places.

For example: If an Imaginarian counts the people in a certain room and decides there are fourteen present, the datum can be reported as nPiTR = 14 where nPiTR is number of people in the room and 14 is the observation. If the observation is reported in this manner, it is a WAG. It can be raised to the level of Law of the Universe by adding the requisite decimals and reporting it as 14.0000000. The conclusion that there are 14.0000000 people in the room is now a law of the universe. If more decimals are added making the number, say, 14.000000000000, the observation becomes a fundamental law of the universe. In fact, there is no need for the Imaginarian to even visit the room. He or she could decide that there must be, say, five people in the room. Reported as nPiTR = 5.000000000000000, it becomes a fundamental law of the universe that there are five people in the room, even if some Ordinarian visits the room and naively reports that there are 14 people there. Political, business, and many other statistics are calculated and reported in this manner, indicating the presence of a large number of Imaginarians in these fields of endeavor. The entire U.S. effort in Vietnam and the economic 'reform' of the '80s and early '90s were supported solely by this type of information.

*This hierarchy has nothing to do with Ordinary Reality and is derived from the statements of known imaginarians. For example, Ronald Reagan, when pandering to the anti- evolutionists said something to the effect that evolution is only a theory.

	T=1/{[(Pt/Pr)C]**S}O
				
	where:
				T = time (in Imaginary units, of
				course)  Computations are 
				performed using Imaginary 
				numbers, the real component 
				of any number being 
				undefined.
				Pt = total project duration
				Pr = remaining duration
				C = amount of Imgainarian's 			 		
		overdue car payment
				S = need to suck up to higher 
		status Imaginarian (chairman of the board, governor, etc)
				O = opportunity to slip one over 
		on other department heads

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