A dear friend of mine once asked me about Radar Blind speed..I meticulously put down the formula on paper and showed it to her with excitement owing to the mere fact of remembering it at once. She said she was not interested in the equation at all but wanted to visualize how come radar turns blind to such a target. My wits went spirally down..I knew it…but to put the thing into words without dragging in mathematical explanation, seemed a bit complicated. I flipped through the book, revived my concepts and voila.. the phenomenon was once again crystal clear. To top it, the teeny equation that had earlier jiggled out of my memory, seemed to make it more comprehensible now.
This evening I’m ‘looking’ at some other equation, trying to figure out how each parameter is acting as a factor of improvement or degradation for the dependent variable, correlating each with the physical implications. Meanwhile, Beauty and the Beast song is being aired on T.V. A mixed parody starts playing in my head:-
How complex physical processes are over simplified through the beauty of equation; how the beast of modelling every single process mars its physical significance to some extent.
Never mind, I flap the book away and hum along…
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast
Oh equations.. you’re of the Science😓
Beauty and the Beast!!!
Ruminations 