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Mathematical Magnetism Even though earth mankind of today was late coming to the party, Sir Isaac Newton brought to us improved clarity on gravity and its impact on earth matters and the solar system. The old example of an apple falling from a tree is used to demonstrate earth mankind’s step up in understanding of the fundamental force at work all around us. Certainly, people of the much distant past recognized something like a bucket of stones was much harder to carry than a bucket of apples but it was just understood to be that way without a fundamental understanding of why.   As we have grown in our understanding such as through Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, we seem to develop more questions than the issues we are explaining or beginning to understand. Quantum mechanics ushered in a whole host of complex issues and essentially separated the common person of high school education from the Ph.D. specialist. Our society has developed a serious wall between those with mathe...