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An English Major Explains the Beauty of the Dirac Equation With No Success Whatsoever

An English Major Explains the Beauty of The Dirac Equation with No Success Whatsoever Schrodinger, mostly famous for playing the piano in the well-known comic strip by Schulz, was not related to Vince Guaraldi. It would be irrational to assume any blood relationship could exist between a comic strip character and an actual pianist. However, when particles of fiction interact with particles of actual events and individuals in the real world, a blurring of fields spins reality into questions about perception and the role of perception in its ability to effectively distinguish differences between what's real and what's imagined. The absolute value of this interaction between variant components is sometimes expressed in terms of contradictory constants, but these constants have the propensity to collide and reform themselves into elements which are not constant at all. The resulting spin of post collision particles sends stability into temporary disarray, which continues until intertia slows the particles into an equilibrium of sorts. The Dirac Equation is composed of symbols and letters and numerals which are virtually incoherent to 99.8% of English majors, who generally agree that The Dirac Equation (like most other equations) is only beautiful when one is able see the unfamiliar constellation of arrows and capitals mixed with lower case letters and brackets and parentheses and commas and what appear to be fractions as beautiful because the sum of their appearance cannot reasonably be categorized as ugly. Jim Babwe

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Date: 5/12/2019 7:59:00 PM
Greetings! How could I not love a poem on this site (of all sites) mentioning Schrödinger and Dirac? Oddly, though myself an English major, I am not unacquainted with Schrödinger's quantum wave function equations. They're more abstruse than Einstein's E=mc-squared or Newton's F=ma, but still beautiful. Of course, the Charlie Brown character always playing Beethoven's "Für Elise" is Schroeder, not Schrödinger… or was the misidentification intentional? Well done again!
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Jim Babwe
Date: 3/3/2024 10:39:00 PM
Thanks! Oddly enough, I forgot to mention "Hang On, Snoopy."

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