Reliquary: Galileo's LensYesterday the Congress declared Einstein's birthday, "Pi Day."
Rep. Baird from WAstate described fascination with the existence of such a magical number. But why? I suspect Baird is reflecting the need of some of his constituents to find reason to believe in God.
Let me help.
Unless there is an Intelligent Designer, then one would assume that some number would describe the ration of diameter to circumference but what intrinsic property of reality, other than ID, would mean that value was 3.0?
Personally, I think there is better evidence for an underlying intent in this here world. That is the value of the speed of light in km/sec: 300,000! Since meters are based on the diameter of the Earth and were invented in France, That value, called "C" seems to me to prove their is God, that the God used the speed of light to determine the diameter of the Earth, and, of course, that God is French.
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But…but…but….the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/sec.
“I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.” “But,” says Man, “c=300,000,000 is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.”
“Oh dear,” says God, “I hadn’t thought of that,” and promptly disappears in a puff of logic. decelerated light slightly and tweaked Euclidian space to mess up the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
Now you know…the rest of the story.
Ohn yee of little faith.
We KNOW that that 1 degree of longitude = 1/360.q of the Earth's circumference.
God has given us choice. In this case the choice is of where do we measure the Earth's diameter? Do we include mountains? Atmosphere? The message is clear: If believers instead of atheists had invented the meter, they would have found that there is a perfect sphere enclosing the Earth at distance such that pi*r^2 gives its greatest cross section.
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