Equations

Thank God the Earth's movements--its spinning and revolving, and all actions in, on, and around it-- do not depend upon my comprehension of equations. I was bombarded by them in various high-school and college classes, in which I wore a perpetually perplexed expression and asked questions--when I knew enough to put together a halfway lucid question. These classes affected my prayer life. The most common plea of that time was, "God, please give me a desire to learn this stuff--and to actually learn it. Please help the professor to get way down here on my level." Equations were/are formulated to enable us to grasp concepts such as gravity, linear systems, the Pythogorean Theorem, Cantor's Theorem, variational principle, energy, mass, and speed of light (just listing these has caused me to stare blankly) and, my favorite, Pi. Studying this concept always brought on vivid daydreams about pie, usually cherry, with a mound of vanilla bean ice cream. March 8, 2016