Did God make pi?

Question

The ratio of the circumference of a cirle to its diameter is a universal constant named pi, equal to 3.14159.... My question is, did God decide what value pi should have, or is pi an absolute constant that not even God can change?

"cirle" should be "circle"

Answer 1

It depends on your personal beliefs.

Answer 2

Sure God mad pi. As to Him being able to change it, the only way He could do that would be to create a new universe where He built in different natural laws and ratios.

http://www.khouse.org/articles/2003/482/

The recent discovery that the speed of light is not a constant has created quite a stir - and rethinking - in both physics and cosmology. (Although the spate of recent articles always fails to credit Barry Setterfield for calling this to our attention over a decade ago!) However, there does appear to be at least two intrinsic constants in the universe: p and e.

We all met p ("pi") in school when we had to deal with the circumference of a circle and similar matters. "Pi are squared" sounds like bad grammar, but it is correct geometry for the area of a circle, pr2. We approximated it with 22/7, until we got into engineering circles where we learned that, more precisely, it was 3.141592654... (It has recently been calculated to a trillion decimal places!1) As we have previously mentioned in several of our materials, p is also a "hidden treasure" in the Hebrew text of 1st Kings 7:23.2 When one corrects the letter values for a variation of the spelling, the 46-foot circumference of Solomon's "molten sea" is specified to an accuracy of better than 15 thousandths of an inch !

Answer 3

It depends on whether or not God defined the circle to begin with. Suppose God only created the opportunity for geometry, and the justification for the limits of geometry. It then follows that once man created Circle, God justified pi. Were man to decide pi had a different value than the one God already justified, then they would be an athiest and a blasphemer. However, since man created Circle, and man created Square, should man decide that pi (a value constant and justified by God) is also a constant associated with rhomboids, then he would be a scientist. :-P

Answer 4

The circle is... it is like when you have an object, say, an apple. You can count it under any imaginable (time invariant) scheme and it will always be just one.

What is really weird about a circle is that it's area and circumference both use pi as a factor.

There are many such constants: say "e" as in exp(1)... the area under the curve 1/x...

These are the immutable facts of our physical universe. The rules or limitations that bind us.

I kind of like -1 = exp( pi * i ) proof of God if there ever was one.

Answer 5

Absolute constants didn't have to be the way they are. Theoretically, it is possible for a space to exist with different properties and, perhaps, a different value of pi.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

pi, and all of mathematics is so above god, who isnt real anyway!
so yea god cant change pi, because it is not defined as a number but as a ratio of a circle's cicumference ot its diameter.

Answer 8

(I updated this answer, language is tricky)

To make or create, is to bring into existence, to cause something to be.

Pi is imaginary, it is something in our minds. It makes sense and is logical, but doesn't actually exist. If it doesn't actually exist, then it was never made.

Think about Newtonian Physics, it works and does what we think it does, but it isn't real. Einsteins Relativitiy, is more accurate then Newtonian Physics, but is also not real. They are just representations that work for what they are used for.

Answer 9

it is imaginable that pi is the secret to God.
I think God is meant to be worshipped - not understood.
He is meant to be known - not seen.

So is pi.

May be it is the little window through which God reveals himself. But only that much.
peek-a-boo

Answer 10

no he made pi r squared, man creates his own calendars and mathematics ,just read the short history of math, what you are saying is heresy, cause the church hated mathematicians and banned math at certain times in history,like science, math and god dont mix

Answer 11

God created earth - PI is a earthly value - so you think maybe god could change it if he wanted to - you betcha. He can do anything.