Close to Pi Day

Today is Pi Day 3/14

The most recent attempt, by a Japanese computer scientist in 2002, found 1.24 trillion digits of pi. To put all this in perspective, even an astrophysicist, attempting to measure galaxies, would never need more than 10 or 15 digits of precision. But pi beckons us on further. Some mathematicians believe that if we could only find some pattern in pi, even some hint that there were more fours than sevens, it could lead to a huge breakthrough in our understanding of the universe.

The late physicist Carl Sagan, in his novel Contact, imagined a time when Earth scientists were sufficiently able to unravel enough of pi to find encoded messages from our creators-messages that would allow our primitive race to leap into a greater universal awareness. After all, if you were going to hide a long numeric message in the very fabric of our reality, pi would be a natural place to do it.

Voila, ever read the Bible Code? There are those who would say that there are lots of encoded messages in the text of the Bible - if you string together all the Hebrew words with no spaces and then pick out every fourth letter, every fifth and so on.

Then of course there is the "Language of God". DNA. 3 billion letters or so. And what do we find encoded there? Isn't it funny how Carl Pi gan could dream of finding an encoded message in Pi and yet he had no room for God. At least one guy, Collin, had the brains to figgure out that the DNA code did Not just happen. It really is a message from God to us - Each of us.

I like the response of one university lecturer to a question. (in my own words) A lady asked how can I feel worth anything when there is so much anti feminine in the Bible? " You do not believe that there IS a God. Since you are just random chance you have no have no basis to expect to feel worth anything - what was your question again?" He went on to clarify that in fact there is very much in the Bible that makes a woman worth something - which is NOT found in any religion outside of true christianity. Jesus thought that you were worth dying for.

So while you eat your Pi e today think about big numbers and codes.

"primitive" ? ? ? What IS he talking about ? ? ?