Even physicists are 'afraid' of mathematics

ScienceDaily ^ | November 11, 2016 | University of Exeter

[numberonepal]

Excelllent analogy.

[dfwgator]

[Verbosus]

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[fruser1]

Here’s proof that 2 equals 1. You MUST understand this before attempting to have a conversation with a lib/lefty/commie.

a = b

a^2 = ab

a^2 + a^2 = a^2 + ab

2a^2 = a^2 + ab

2a^2 - 2ab = a^2 + ab - 2ab

2a^2 - 2ab = a^2 - ab

2(a^2 - ab) = 1(a^2 - ab)

2 = 1

[reed13k]

ditto

[reed13k]

Proof of Marriage!

[PIF]

That changed in the 1800s when Oliver Heavyside threw out 196 of Maxwell’s theorems keeping only four which he changed from field to vector equations thus giving us all we know about the entire electromagnetic spectrum - without which both Tesla and Einstein would have remained obscure. No one has ever gone back since Tesla and looked at the original theorems because they are too hard and the original book by Maxwell is extremely difficult to find.

[shawnlaw]

The equivalent phrase to "and a miracle occurs" in my engineering classes was, after the professor reached the limit of his mathematical comprehension on a particularly long and complicated expression, "and the following calculations are intuitively obvious thus the result is..."

Sort of like global climate change science, election polling, the federal budget...lol

[ADemocratNoMore]

2 + 2 = 5 for large values of 2.

4 = 1 + 1 for large values of 1.

4 = 2 + 2 for small values of 2.

Go figure.

[BRL]

In applied science it can be tough to know when you have used enough math to get the job done and then stopping

[LouieFisk]

You’re most welcome, fortes fortuna juvat. I find a lot of things interesting and it’s fun to pass one of them along every once in awhile for people to comment & confab on.

[P.O.E.]

Fuzzy computing relies on such.

[minnesota_bound]

Math is easy. See example of common core math......
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/math-equations-16133692.jpg

The solution in the end is 4