The smell of the Moon by Jeffrey Michael Schmitz

Jeff

Thanks for your kind comments on my essay. Reading yours I can see you're a perceptive 'out of the bigger box' thinker. I particularly liked;

'Mathematics 聽requires 聽your 聽trust 聽to 聽function. 聽It 聽is 聽up 聽to 聽you 聽to 聽decide 聽if 聽you 聽are 聽being 聽conned.'

'Science 聽cannot 聽find 聽truth, 聽but 聽can 聽find 聽understanding 聽and 聽failure 聽is 聽an 聽important 聽tool 聽in 聽understanding.' 聽

'It 聽is 聽hard 聽to 聽image 聽physics 聽without 聽mathematics,聽but 聽examples are all 聽around 聽us'

'If we wish to understand what the Moon is like we want to see pictures'

I find 3D pictures to be of massive importance, containing and rationalising great complexity and also highly memorable, adding motion is a multiplier. My video in an exercise in compresses 10 volumes of explanations and calculations into 9 minutes (though should be 30!) And yes; it's important new physics!

I also liked you reminder that Arabic numerals are not the only way of describing cardinalisation. I quite like the Mayan system, of simple symbols (dashes etc) where relative 'position' dictates function. When people get too pedantic about maths as the 'only' language of physics I sometimes compare the manipulations of ancient Arabic symbols we use to Tarot cards. If poorly used they can have equal meaning as descriptors of m natures mechanisms!

Anyway very well done. Shame it seems it won't be in the finalists even after my score.

Peter