I thought, "oh great." He has no idea what I’m going to show him, but he has already disproved it in his own mind. I went to his office and started out by stating that exactly 1/2 of the entire number line consists of even numbers. He thought for a moment and said "Okay, I’ll agree with that." I then stated "Exactly 1/6 of the entire number line consists of numbers that have 3 as a lowest prime factor."

     He did not immediately agree with that one. I had to write a number line on the blackboard and show him that the numbers that have 3 as a lowest prime factor are every sixth number on the number line. This means that they are 1/6 of the entire number line. He reluctantly said "Maybe... Okay that’s probably true."

     I then stated that if you add 1/2 and 1/6 you get 2/3. This means that exactly 2/3 of the entire number line consists of composite numbers that have 3 or less for a lowest prime factor, and therefor, all prime numbers higher than the square of 3, are limited to the other 1/3 of the number line.

     I stated that for every prime number, there is an exact ratio of the entire number line that has that particular prime number for a lowest prime factor. He just couldn’t understand it. It was beyond his comprehension. He just kept saying that by the Law of Infinite Series, you could add all of the fractions together for all of the prime numbers and it would just equal 1.

     I could not get him to understand that if it equaled 1, the higher prime numbers would be limited to a fraction of the number line that is equal to 0. This means that the even numbers outnumber the prime numbers by such a vast amount, that there couldn’t possibly be enough prime numbers to make a pair for every even number.

     I went home realizing that the head of a college math department does not have to be an Einstein. Most mathematicians believe that Goldbach’s conjecture is true, so trying to tell someone that it is false, is like trying to tell Aristotle that the world is round, or trying to convince Ptolemy that the Earth moves around the Sun.

     I already knew that electrical inspectors don’t understand electricity or electrical laws. I already knew that district court judges and lawyers don’t understand the federal or state constitutions. I remember when a state ecology department official tried to collect a hazardous waste fee from me. I asked "I repair electric signs. What hazardous waste am I handling?" He said "Don’t you think that freon is a hazardous waste?" I said it was, but that I don’t have anything to do with freon.  Freon is refrigeration fluid. He said "What about freon signs?" I said "Are you talking about ‘neon’ signs, because neon is a harmless inert gas that is distilled from the air we breath."

     I’m not making this up. There actually is a supposedly college educated state department of ecology fee collector who thought that we pull our trucks up to those great big neon signs, and pump them full of freon. Just last week I had to argue with the Chief Electrical Inspector for the State of Washington about whether or not an electric sign is a ‘light fixture.’ He had to change his policies on electric signs after I proved him wrong. An electric sign is not a ‘light fixture.’

     So, math professors are just like everybody else. There’s math that can just go right over their heads because it’s just too simple. This started me thinking about that big problem with the ‘missing matter.’ We tax payers have spent billions and billions of dollars searching for it. Why do we need to find it so badly? Bad enough to ignore all the homeless people who have no hope of ever gaining the ever rising minimum of skills necessary to make minimum wage, while we spend 50 billion dollars on a particle accelerator that is not intended to produce anything tangible? Apparently so, because there seems to be no limit on how much tax payer money is appropriated to cosmological theory research and experimentation.

     If I went to Congress and said that I needed 5 billion dollars to create an experimental tachyion beam, so I could discover sub-space, in order to build material replicaters and transporter stations, all I would need is 2 or 3 relatives of members of the congress to back me up, and the money would be mine.

     When I watch T.V., I usually watch PBS for the educational shows, like Nova or Scientific American Frontiers. Situation comedies do not entertain me. I saw a straight faced scientist explain how they were going to build the world’s largest laser beam generator, and shine it on the star Vega, in order to communicate with the technologically superior aliens that they believe must be there, because they have already proved that there are so many stars out there, that there must be technologically superior aliens out there, and it is of utmost importance that we contact them, if only the taxpayer would understand the importance of another multi-billion dollar scientific expenditure. Who needs make believe comedy when you can have real life comedy.

     Why does our nation and government have such a predominant fascination with cosmological theories and technological breakthroughs? Is it really just because the Communists launched the first piece of space junk? And now us U. S. taxpayers have to show them who is right? We had to immediately accelerate a space program at great risk and ultimate peril, costing the lives of those who died or were injured in spacecraft mishaps, and impoverishing millions of people and enslaving millions and millions of others to life-long manufacturing jobs, with no future security, reward, or even fair compensation. Many people are forced to live temporarily in apartments, while they spend their lives flying from city to city in search of lasting employment. Others invest all there faith in a big company that produces nothing tangible, only to lose everything in a stock market fall caused by insider corruption.

     Why is our world like this? Is it just me, or is stupid stuff going on all around, just as I perceive it? Where could all that ‘missing matter’ possibly be? Is ‘dark matter’ really ‘dark’, just because we can’t see it, or is there another reason why we can’t see it? And now we have ‘dark energy.’ Dark energy might be making the distant galaxies accelerate away from each other. We are not positive that the galaxies really are actually accelerating away from each other, but all the research so far indicates that there is a very good possibility that this is true. We won’t know for sure whether or not we’ll ever know for sure, but we know this: we can’t seem to be able to find new knowledge unless we spend billions and billions of more dollars on every conceivable technological possibility that research technicians can think of.

     Do we really need to spend a billion dollars on a neutrino detector? Neutrinos are theoretical particles. Do they have mass? How fast do they move? What color are they? Can we survive without knowing anything about neutrinos? Apparently not, because no mathematician or C.P.A. could calculate all the money that has been spent on the endeavor to detect neutrinos.

     I decided to start doing some research to see if I could solve the problem of the missing matter. Goldbach’s conjecture was easy to solve, but it seems impossible to get anyone who believes otherwise, to open their eyes. Why is this?  Is it because belief in a conjecture will always seem true to those who place belief in things that are not yet proven? In other words, one must always keep an open mind to undecided or undiscovered possibilities.