Monday, February 4, 2013

House on the Hill - Winter

Completely apparently irrelevantly to the image, I would like to say something about the con that is the might of knowledge. Wherever you go, people talk about what they know but less frequently about what they understand.
When I was at college, our lecturer in systems proved on the board that the equations for mechanical systems were identical to that for electrical systems. Big deal, you might think, but I was astonished - these two subjects, always taught separately, were basically the same, only differing in the names we give the different things and concepts? And if these two subjects used identical equations, what other subjects also used them?
Well, the more I look, the more everything seemed to run on those same equations, even the universe: e = mc2. Even people systems.
Later I realized that statistics also relied on the fact that any system we care to think was the same, because if a system were different then we could not apply statistics to it. We can predict any event in any field of study using the same statistical methods.
So I can apply my engineering training to this image, because engineering is not about clunking things, its about concepts.

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