Christmas list

[sasha]

O Lord,
let there be Peace on Earth...
and may all flow be laminar
and all air resistance negligible
and all collisions elastic
and all conductors perfect
and all mass distributions uniform
and all gravitating bodies spherical
and their orbits coplanar
and may all differential equations be linear
and homogeneous...
Amen.

[saw]

I like it...and was immediately drawn back in time to this song


https://genius.com/Thomas-dolby-she-bli ... nce-lyrics

[sasha]

thanks, Steve - "Der Kommisar" is another one from that era I liked - something about its irregular rhythm gave it edges. "Uh-uh-oh".....

I did a fair amount of math modeling back in the day, and had grudgingly come to accept that in most cases you couldn't just wave your hands over a little calculus, a bit of trig & algebra, and then triumphantly cry, "aha, X EQUALS...!" More often then not, I'd end up writing computer code to brute-force my way to an approximate solution close enough for the engineers to start drafting blueprints. Most fluid flow is NOT laminar, most collisions are NOT elastic (not if you can hear the billiard balls smacking together), & air resistance is definitely a thing... Real life is messy. Sadly I've come to believe that peace on earth is just another "if only"...

Ah, but in a perfect world... guy can dream, can't he?