The Hairy Ball Problem
I feel bad for having to use that title but no, don't worry, I'm not going to discuss a personal issue and as crass and amusing as the title seems, it is a real problem in math. But I sometimes wonder, why does it seem that no matter how hard you try, you can't find a consistent ideology? Why does it seem that there's always turbulence in the system? Why can't things just smoothly flow? Why do the most innocent ideologies give us turbulence and conflict? Well, I came upon the Harry Ball Theorem a few days ago and I quickly made the analog, maybe it's not exactly apt, but seems appropriate in my opinion to life in general and The Great Search for Truth™ or whatever contrived word or phrase you'd like to give it. I try to avoid putting much time in any one form of symbolism, even the mathematical as well as linguistic, ie, 'quotes to live by', because life is just much more complex as to be contained in such brevity and expressed as such but I can...
