The equation on the heart gives the period of a pendulum based on the length of its chain, acceleration due to gravity, and pi, the ratio of a circle to its diameter. All are constant. Do you experience love as always coming back to a center? Do you sway and return, or might you fly [...]
So much in nature resembles or describes itself at different scales, from different angles. What have you noticed that is self-similar or symmetrical in that way?
If only we could just replenish and turn, replenish and turn, never run out of blank slates. Maybe we can. That’s what I hope for, anyway.
Have you ever noticed how so much of everything people know, they know from circles and straight lines? Even 1 and 0. Arguably, the constants pi and e and even the root of -1 come from circles and lines.
You know that feeling, when you really “get” a work of art, or the stars in the sky or the clouds just overwhelm you, or a massive number floors you? I think there’s something honest about feeling tiny.
If you want to confuse yourself, then the next time you look at a mobile, imagine what four-dimensional object, if spun through three dimensions, would look like that mobile.
