Mathematician\'s complaint

David Turell — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:05:48 +0000

Just for Matt: credit to Tom Graffagnino --"But We'll Keep This Rock-a-Rollin'" (Up Ol' Sisyphus's Hill) We're the smart ones in the classroom... We're the ones with PhD's! Now we're backed into this corner... (Though we're not yet on our knees!) -Our equations hold such promise... And we sense that something's there! We've got Faith in all these numbers, But they just don't seem to care! -Yes, we've filled up ev'ry blackboard, Every piece of chalk is gone! Still the Bottom Line escapes us... But I guess we'll soldier on... -Yes, we're used to crunching numbers, But, ... alas!...they're crunching back! Ev'ry calculation's lacking... And life's Riddle we can't crack! -We've been praying for some insight, To the gods of twos and threes, But our subsets turn up empty, And by anxious thoughts we're seized! -Every time we come up empty... What we get's a Question Mark! Goddess, help with this conundrum! We're still standing in the dark! -Mathematics, ...Yes!...we trust you! And we know that you're sublime! So, if you've still got our number,... Call us quick! We need a Sine! -Our equations just won't balance! We're unnerved and..."It's not FAIR!" Please come show us what we're missing In this Kingdom of the Air! --We detect true Beauty's pattern... It's both elegant and clean; Fibonacci's calculations Took us to The Golden Mean. -We can see the subtle Order... Information on display! But we're tethered to this notion: Naturalism's Mindless Way. -We can't get behind the Curtain, We can't reach beyond the Veil! We can't fathom what's The Reason Why the math we've done has failed. -All this leads to great discomfort! See?...The Curtain still is drawn! We can measure it and touch it, But our angst goes on and on! -It's absurd! We just can't figure What the heck it's all about. It's infernal ...and we anguish.... Wringing hands...We twist and shout! -All our quantum physics fizzled... (That's been quite the Bitter Pill!) But we'll keep this rock-a- rollin' Up ol' Sisyphus's hill!

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