Sunday, April 30, 2023

I Tumble For Pi Comments

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I think that any art that starts my mental juices flowing is probably in resonance with some kind of source-realm. People like me are tyrannized by a totalizing tendency, so our understanding of the source-realm gets clothed in dogma or ideology. But I recognize the authenticity of art that vibrates from the source-realm and doesn't pin it down.

I was rescued from pinning down the source-realm because I tumbled for the transcendental number Pi. I think that Pi's interplay with its cousins is determinative: the truth-realm of eternal mathematical objects will not allow the void to be infertile. At the same time, the interplay of energy and transcendental numbers gives rise to open-ended processes: they are allowed to have their own inner vistas and histories.
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Denis Mair 10 June 2023

Perhaps the question I'm raising is a variant of the perennial question 'Why is there something rather than nothing? '

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Denis Mair 10 June 2023

Why is Pi the ratio defining electron shell quanta in the hydrogen atom. Why does an eternal mathematical entity come into play in this particular way? It's a mystery.

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anais vionet 09 June 2023

This is all true, but perhaps less so in the south. Oh, I LOVE that song 'I'll tumble for you.'

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Denis Mair 09 June 2023

The charm of pi is that it serves as the most fundamental threshold we know of in the energy states of intact atoms. Hence it undergirds all the complex thresholds in a living thing.

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