If you ask me what fascinated you the most, I might give you different answers at different times but for the most part it would be God, the universe and one magical word that drives the whole show - 'balance'. This word forms the basis of Libra and Librans are always characterized in any zodiac book by the phrase 'the golden balance'. Let's look at this beautiful thread that connects everything, I mean everything together.
Imagine several thousand tons of mass floating here and there in the universe... The masses are not just floating, they are rotating revolving, radiating energy and what not. If you imagine the universe as a plane, what are the chances of the weights being equally balanced on either side - both in terms of mass and in terms of charge? After all, isn't that the crux of Anti-particle theory? The most unbelievable part of this whole thing is that a similar setup is also present within the smallest piece man has ever known - 'an atom'. Particles of opposite charges are kept so close to each other but they don't disintegrate and they contain so much energy that keeps the electron revolving forever and when the energy from a few grams of Uranium atoms is brought out, it is capable of feeding heavy voltage lines that serve a huge power consuming nation like India. So this goes back to the discussion on quantum theory and the illusion of space that we spoke about in one of my previous posts.
Okay... so that explains nature and libra in the title but Mathematics? Ever heard of Normal distribution? People tend to call it a bell shaped curve but to me it appears like the arms of a man/scales of a balance streched equally across the pivot. The reason it's called a 'normal' distribution is that it is the most commonly observed probability density function. Ok... I'm not talking Greek and Latin here. A simple example would be the distribution of employees in an office by character/sincerity/work. A major proportion of the poulation would be average, working when they feel like but making sure they don't overkill time (let's call them the mean). There will be some others who hardly understand anything and wade off their time in ping-pong tables, cafetaria and orkut (let's call them -sigma). There will be the other extreme who are stunningly talented and smart working; finishing off their work in a jiffy (let's call them +sigma). The presence of -sigma is balanced by the presence of +sigma and since the major chunk is already in the mean area a balance close to the median is established. This is precisely what normal distribution talks about and shunning off the mathematical aspects in it and focusing on the inference behind normal distribution, thinking for a moment about it like the person who discovered it; would lead to the eternal balance and the creator's magic...
Now do you still wonder why I'd say Mathematics, Nature and Libra are inter-woven?
