I Love Science

After yesterdays litte outpouring anyone would be forgiven for thinking I hate science. Nothing could be further from the truth!

I LOVE SCIENCE

That outpouring was from the 'once deceived'. But, when I recover my equanimity, and review the situation, I just shift my perspective: science is no longer THE TRUTH, the answer to the questions of life, the universe and everything; science is now artifice.

So, now able to re-position myself and view science as ART, I'm in love again, and on much the same basis as before, as it turns out: that is, it is a symphony, or ballet, in mathematics. How can one not be bowled over by MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, those four, neat little lines of symbols that so cryptically encode a whole world. They are like the tightest, most elegant of metaphors. Yes, I guess that is it: physics is POETRY IN MATHEMATICS.

PHYSICS IS POETRY IN MATHEMATICS