July 6th 2003
Daily Object Science Report -
New Theory Rocks Scientific Foundations!
Rho

Everybody knows about Pi, stemming from:
but more familiar as 3.14159265358979323846264...(a)
Now there is Rho. Rho is the explanation of the power of the gravitational force upon a spinning object. This power is the rotational procession of a spinning object. It is seen in all spinning objects from a simple toy top to the simple vortex, the gyroscope, the whirlpool eddy, the whirlwind, the tornado, to the more complex frame dragging rotation of the moon around the earth, the rotation of the planets around the sun, the motion of the universe, the black hole and to the most complex; the compound vortex and the hurricane.
It's beauty is simply this, that as yet is that there is no formulae or numerical representation other than the symbol alone.
Scientists have spent many weeks staring at it and believe it sums up its meaning perfectly.
(a) One man's definition of pi (from Godling's Glossary, by Dave Krieger): Pi.
1.The Greek letter P or p, corresponding to the roman p.
2.A number, represented by said letter, expressing the ratio of the circumference of a perfect circle to its diameter. The value of pi has been calculated to many millions of decimal places, to no readily apparent purpose: no perfect circles or spheres exist in nature, since matter is composed of atoms and therefore lumpy, not smooth. Nature
herself sometimes takes to rounding off the more extreme decimals of numbers when they get sufficiently small, as Prof. Heisenberg has pointed out. However, the continued extension of pi provides a harmless exercise of computer power which would otherwise be misused playing Quake or surfing pointless web sites.
In September, 1999, Dr. Kanada of the University of Tokyo calculated 206,158,430,000 decimal digits of pi (approx.3*2^36). In September 2002, he and his team broke their own world record, calculating 1.2411 trillion digits (over six times more than before). Click here for another news report.
 
 
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