I always liked Maths at school. It was a subject that was not subject to opinion and if you could do the basics then you could build on that to do almost anyting. Unlike art where a big blob painted on was boring and lacked imagination but a blob put on a canvas by your bottom shows imagination and a new outlook on life. Life was good and understandable and the basic maths I was taught has lasted me well and even now after all these years 1 + 1 = 2. Bliss. I’m still up to date….. or am I?
Along comes modern mathematics, and like physics, it starts looking outside the real world and suddenly they turn everything on its head. They go all 11th dimension on me and now they are not so sure 1 + 1 = 2 and long known truths are now considered invalid. Who the hell has ever worked outside our normal 4 dimensions where 1 + 1 = 2? Do we ever think we will need to work in the 8th dimension? Where exactly are these dimensions anyway? How relevant is it to the real world really?
This is the problem nowadays. Everything that was so simple now seems so complicated in a theoretical way, a way that will never be of interest in the real world. Yet my real world practical understanding of everything is being mauled by theoretical constructs which 99.999% of the population don’t understand and 99.9999% of the world have no real practical use for.
I only hope it leads to a warp drive or something. In the meantime I’m sticking to my 1 + 1 = 2 and thats what I’ll be using in all my real world stuff.
The difference between theory and practise
I always liked Maths at school. It was a subject that was not subject to opinion and if you could do the basics then you could build on that to do almost anyting. Unlike art where a big blob painted on was boring and lacked imagination but a blob put on a canvas by your bottom shows imagination and a new outlook on life. Life was good and understandable and the basic maths I was taught has lasted me well and even now after all these years 1 + 1 = 2. Bliss. I’m still up to date….. or am I?
Along comes modern mathematics, and like physics, it starts looking outside the real world and suddenly they turn everything on its head. They go all 11th dimension on me and now they are not so sure 1 + 1 = 2 and long known truths are now considered invalid. Who the hell has ever worked outside our normal 4 dimensions where 1 + 1 = 2? Do we ever think we will need to work in the 8th dimension? Where exactly are these dimensions anyway? How relevant is it to the real world really?
This is the problem nowadays. Everything that was so simple now seems so complicated in a theoretical way, a way that will never be of interest in the real world. Yet my real world practical understanding of everything is being mauled by theoretical constructs which 99.999% of the population don’t understand and 99.9999% of the world have no real practical use for.
I only hope it leads to a warp drive or something. In the meantime I’m sticking to my 1 + 1 = 2 and thats what I’ll be using in all my real world stuff.