Equations in science work like arithmetic equations in the sense that the quantities on each side of the equation are the same. However, the two sides are not equal.
Consider first a chemical equation for the formation of salt by reacting sodium with chlorine:
2Na + Cl2 → 2NaCl
The quantities of atoms on each side of the equation are the same, but the chemical substances are different. They are related through the different ways in which the atoms have been ordered with respect to one another.
Now consider the famous equation
E = mc2
in which E represents energy, m represents mass and c2 represents the speed of light squared. The two sides of the equation represent the same quantity, but they do not mutually negate to afford nothing. They are related through symmetry. It is as if the square of the speed of light is a symmetry operator that interconverts energy with mass.
We use scientific equations to express natural laws. It will be possible to express natural laws using chiralkine counting instead of equations. Chiralkine counting treats the two sides of the relationship defining any object, is and not, symmetrically. The two sides of the relationship are quantitatively the same and are related through symmetry, both directly insofar as they are members of an opponent colour pair and indirectly, insofar as they are of different opponent colour pairs. Equations provide closure in two steps, whereas chiralkine counting does so in three, but this renders it no less rigorous in its logical foundation. It oscillates like a wave, but this oscillation is not that generated by a wave equation such as a sine wave defined by positive and negative numbers that mutually negate to zero. It is an oscillation generated relationally by dual logic.
In the physical world there are no meanings tethered to the physical properties of objects. All is symmetrical. It feels familiar and comforting to work with symbols tethered to absolute meanings, such as same and different or true and false, but adopting this approach conceals information about relationships coupled by relational symmetry. Chiralkine counting offers a window on this hidden world of relational couplings.