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I am using a new way to update these musings. In my interest in how equations tell stories, I thought this might be a good time to start talking about that. It seems this might be a good place to start.

\displaystyle \overrightharpoon{F} = G \frac{m_1m_2}{r^2}\^{r}

This is the description of a commonly experienced phenomena. The first question is, when you look at this, what do you see? Is it just a jumble of letters and symbols? Or, is it a math problem. Or, do you see a description of the force created between two masses? What do you see? I don’t think these are the only three answers.

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