In Search of Pi

I am not a mathematician. Though mathematical concepts came naturally to me during my educational phase, they held no interest for me. I never proceeded beyond Algebra II. I never took advanced maths, such as trig or calculus. Beyond the practical aspects of math, I saw it as boring and non-productive.

In math, even in my small insignificant experience, you quickly learn of pi (π). Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It is a constant, being the same no matter what size the circle. Calculating the value of pi is apparently not quite so simple as the mathematical formula: π = C/d.  It is very involved. However, this is not the magic of pi.

The magic of pi is that it is infinite. Those who have calculated pi to the extreme (the record is 1,241,100,000,000 decimal places) have found that there is no pattern or end to that point and none predicted from there on out until infinity, which is to where they assume pi extends.

I find this amazing. I do not mean I find the marvels of pi amazing. It is amazing, but that's not it. I find it amazing that people will marvel over such things, spending millions upon millions of dollars delving into pi, yet will ignore truths which seem more obvious yet which are far more marvelous. Everything in creation, pi included, bears the fingerprints of its creator. So, when a person sees marvels such as pi, why do they not immediately look to a greater wisdom, a higher power, that was behind the making of such things? Why is it so hard for people to acknowledge that God is behind all these things?

It takes a whole lot more faith in lesser things to believe that what we see evolved from that primordial soup. A big bang seems to be a shot in the dark. It seems to be a guess--a mere stab--at what might have happened if we deny the presence of a creator. It seems to be formulated by someone who, in their desire to write God out of life, takes illogical steps of fancy and places more faith in whims, theories and opinions. I'm amazed at the lengths people will go to in order to avoid acknowledging God. I suppose they know that acknowledging God will mean they are to be subject to him. If they are subject to him, they are no longer the masters of their own destinies.

Then again, it could simply be that faith is indeed a gift of God. He gives us the ability to understand these truths. In our natural state, we don't have the capacity to understand these things. For some, God removes the scales of human nature and reveals the truth that dwells beneath our existence. We will see then, all too clearly, the true nature of life and that it all stands as a tribute to its creator, the only one worthy of such worship and praise.

He does indeed call us to be his subjects, but he is a benevolent Master who wants only our good. We find, in giving up this control, that we are actually liberated rather than enslaved. We are set free from pointless, futile lives that end in destruction. We are set on a path of true knowledge, not empty meaninglessness.

Infinity is the fingerprint of God. Infinity is, to us, a theoretical concept that we can only acknowledge the presence of, yet can never understand. The universe is infinite, with no end. It goes on and on, passing countless stars, planets and galaxies, yet continuing on without end. Pi stretches out to infinity. They say there are small, attention-getting irregularities in its numbers as it stretches out to its known reaches, yet there is no pattern, no end and no reason to expect either of these in the unknown reaches of pi.

Pi is the fingerprint of God.