Plums and Math

[ndrosen]

At the farmers’ market on Sunday, I bought a quart of the delicious plums that have spoiled me for supermarket plums. One of the people working at the stand, a seventeen year old girl who isn’t big on mathematics, commented on my t-shirt, which showed a sort of funnel and the mathematical expression for the Schwartzschild radius of a black hole. I said that I had actually bought it for what was in the back, so I turned around to show the vendors the words, “And God said [vector equations] and there was light.”

I explained that those were Maxwell’s equations for electromagnetism.

Comments

[thewayne]

That's a good shirt, I've seen it before. Amongst my screen saver photos is some pix of my wife wearing a shirt that says 'You Hadron me at collider'.