patteren:
032909;819
series: magnificat;175
| patteren:
032909;819 |
| 97a.sappho.outofThyme.sceneIII : Now, there are groups of people we encounter - all heading towards the parking lot. The stairs going from the mall to the outside are maze-like and to save time, we follow the lead of others who jump over serpentine banisters to get to the stairs (we jump over several of these banisters.) Finally we're on the parking lot, and we're walking to the car, a convertible. Suddenly an old, grotesquely gnarled tree uproots and starts to chase everyone. It turns into a monster and it runs extremely fast. Everyone's running and screaming. It's as if we roused it, and it was angry. But, then, the tree-monster turned into a giant lizard/dinosaur creature. The driver suddenly leapt behind the monster and grabbed its tail and started to swing the monster around at dizzying speeds. Then, I heard a spectator comment about the number of revolutions of a man who once swung something. The driver had a speed of 500. There was a scroll that recorded such information. Then, Gunther appeared and asked me exactly how they figured out such figures. I then explained that if you take the number of seconds, the π formula for the circumference of a circle and another figure, you attain the revolution statistic. I then went on to recount Madame Curie's lifelong work of finding out what π was. And, as if we could see into the past, a journal entry from M. Curie's sketchbook appears. On the paper it states (in the hand of M. Curie) "Many variables, one constant. One constant, many variables." The statement pointed to the quest for π's numerical figure. |
|
