Engineering Math, Period 2, 13 Nov '09
Today the equations littering the board behind Mohinder were interspersed with skewed ellipses centred on and orbiting circles.
"The first attempts at modelling the mechanics of the larger scale world around us - planets, stars, galaxies - considered us to be the centre of everything - the thought in the mind of god," Mohinder said, sketching out an approximate model. "Our place in the universe has gotten ever smaller; this planet one of several orbiting a non-descript star, first in circles, then ellipses..." Mohinder continued to described the search for an ever more accurate understanding of the mechanics of the stars.
Finishing, he picked up a mesh of metal and gears. "This is only a simple approximation of this solar system." Complete with an tomato wobbling it's way around a slow orbit. "Not that your models have to be limited to this local star."
[OCD is up!]
"The first attempts at modelling the mechanics of the larger scale world around us - planets, stars, galaxies - considered us to be the centre of everything - the thought in the mind of god," Mohinder said, sketching out an approximate model. "Our place in the universe has gotten ever smaller; this planet one of several orbiting a non-descript star, first in circles, then ellipses..." Mohinder continued to described the search for an ever more accurate understanding of the mechanics of the stars.
Finishing, he picked up a mesh of metal and gears. "This is only a simple approximation of this solar system." Complete with an tomato wobbling it's way around a slow orbit. "Not that your models have to be limited to this local star."
[OCD is up!]