I found the true meaning of complex numbers, and so have some other north eastern european guy before me. There is no esotericism, if you know physics things called right handed SCREWS with lead angle of 45 DEGREES


http://www.dma.unifi.it/~minguzzi/Dimentberg65%20-%20The%20screw%20calculus%20and%20its%20applications%20in%20mechanics.pdf


See the last matrix in levi civita tensor used in cross products. There is your so called imaginary unit.