Mathematics

I loathed mathematics as a child, at least apart from a very short period of time when I was about 10, when it seemed frighteningly easy.

Now I love it, but I feel it's something that's so beyond me that it's like some ocean of nectar that I simply can't even begin to swallow in anything like its entirety.

Subjects such as the Reimann Hypothsis, and wonderful conundrums as the Fibonacci Series, Relativity, and the mysteries of Pi, as well as its Greek alphabet cousin Phi (itself related to the Fibonacci series and the Golden Mean) are all so tantalisingly, wonderfully entertaining.

The mysteries of existence are held in mathematics. I mean, just look at Phi alone: I remember how I got interested in it a few years back. I was really into the idea of looking for relationships between apparently unrelated phenomena, and I had the idea to throw some things together and see if there was an correspondence between them. One such pairing was aesthetics and mathematics. I wondered how there could be a relationship between the two, and fell upon the Golden Mean (Golden section) and the number Phi (1.6181) and how it features so often in life. It's there in art, in plants, in maths, in fractals, in all manner of things.

Then there's Pi, which has mysteries we can only begin to understand.

Some have suggested that mathemtics is God. I can go along with that. It's like all maths is still tied up in the universe, waiting to be discovered, and we've only really uncovered the tip of the iceberg.

Hypercubes are another. A hypercube is to a cube what a cube is to a square. Here's a representation of one, shown as best as possible in two dimensions: CLICK HERE.

Just to understand that there is a dimension (or dimensions) "outside" our own is so exciting to me. The more I study phenomena like hypercubes, the more I can understand that faster than light travel and "teleportation" are a distinct possibility. Hypercubes, and the whole business of multidimensional space, explains, to me, how magick and related phenomena such as synchronicity work.

I could go on about this for hours. What I regret is that my actual math skills don't extend beyond understand a little of calculus, albebra, and fairly simple trigonomentry.

But even the simple understanding of stuff like non- Euclidean geometry has opened my mind up tremendously.

I love mathematics!