I understand the religion part, but not the math part- I'm not an engineer so I won't "get it". My uncle was an engineer for NASA until he died, I'd ask him if he were still here. He might get it. After all, he designed the optics for the space shuttle cameras, among other things. Kinda why he died of a brain tumor at 55, too much R&D. His engineering contributions to our world for the engineers interested-or maybe stupidity just runs in my family ;-)
He is listed just above this abstract , dated 1980 from Huntsville, Ala.
One of the patents he and his team have-