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To: koan who wrote (249674)	4/26/2014 1:35:48 PM
From: Stock Puppy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543149

I have some awareness of the basics, but no understanding at all of how they are derived i.e. the actual calculations, so I know my mental image is wrong. Maybe, maybe not. Mathematics assures that what we are looking it is rational and logical and not beholden to our possibly flawed common sense. Sometimes the math agrees with our perceptions. Sometimes we get totally different and amazing results and connections. Of course the result is only as good as the model. Some of my physics teachers would do out of the box stuff like change values of fundamental constants or small parts of an equation just to show what happens - sometimes just a little change can totally change the properties of the universe. Although I wasn't such a good student, I had excellent physics teachers - and every single one of them, the first day in class, no matter how advanced the class, would start off with the basic equation: F=ma. Everything else (except thermodynamics) follows.