POK ... I don't know why you think an alien would understand the marriage symbol? What information does it carry if you approach it on the basis of never having heard anything about it before. At least an Alien could deduce that 43 is a prime number.
Why was the marriage symbol not included on the voyager spacecraft. (I think it was voyager) wheras the Fibonacci number system was. This was purely done in case one of them slammed into an aliens kneecap. I know, I know .... extremely unlikely but tell it to Carl Sagan, not me.
I don't know what you have against Maxwell. Everyone else seems to like him, even Pop Faraday said that one day he would be somebody. The fact is that he sat down and watched everything Old Man Faraday did, Maxwell didn't really know what Faraday was doing, but then again, neither did Faraday. Then he sat over these writings and eventually he came out with an elegant set of equations.
Einstein said he was possibly the most important contributor of all time and used his equations to the absolute exclusion of everyone elses. I use them, I don't understand them all, just some of them.
But, they've never failed me yet !!
What I don't understand is how all this, and all other knowledge, can be deduced from the marriage symbol? I can understand it as an Icon or Logo, and how it can symbolise all knowledge. But without knowing all the knowledge that the Icon represents I don't know how knowledge can be deduced from it
cool bananas ... greg