{"id":34518,"date":"2026-06-02T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=34518"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:27:24","slug":"the-brothers-birtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/the-brothers-birtles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brothers Birtles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you realise that this railway bench <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is totally balanced <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every part has a job to do <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if it fails then chaos might follow <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is what I call the balance of mathematics <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quoting in practical terms it applies to the balance method <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a fundamental rule stating that any operation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is applied to one side of an equation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Must be applied to the other<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Otherwise the balance <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will be be compromised  <br><br><br>Where is our sister Jenny<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is in the station buffet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having a cup of tea  <br><br><br>When she returns ask her to sit next to you <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will move to the far end of this station bench <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you know our sister is very feminine and slight <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But her weight added to yours will exceed my weight <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In theory the balance of this bench might fail <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we would all end up looking foolish in the dust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this will not happen because of this fundamental rule <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you realise that this railway bench Is totally balanced Every part has a job to do And if it fails then chaos might follow It is what I call the balance of mathematics Quoting in practical terms it applies to the balance method This is a fundamental rule stating that any operation That is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34522,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518\/revisions\/34522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}