One opening line that’s always stuck with me is:
“The doctor said I was a paranoid schizophrenic. Well, he didn’t actually say it, but we knew he was thinking it.”
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One opening line that’s always stuck with me is:
“The doctor said I was a paranoid schizophrenic. Well, he didn’t actually say it, but we knew he was thinking it.”
So… is Goldstein still around or did he…?
Don’t worry, he’s alive: His wiki page
Apparently still alive at 85: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goodstein
There’s still time
We are all gas with slightly denser particles.
🔫
We all are vast collections of harmonic oscillators.
id want to kill myself too. just from the very little i know from computer stuff, imagine doing an entire semester
Physics ≠ Computer Science
Can’t have computer science without physics.
Thank you for this, it was new to me
My favorite class in grad school. I absolutely loved deriving the laws of thermodynamics from first principles based the random motion of atoms. It was beautiful.
Is the grad school in the room now? Do you need help?
Grad school? This is for 4y bachelor studenat
Bachelor student? I learned this in high school
I don’t know. I like Griffith’s Quantum Mechanics which opens saying if you think you’re starting to understand this stuff, you really haven’t.
Light, why do you behave differently when I’m looking at you?
Because you’re touching them with your eyes
Weed out the riff-raff who can’t hack it
Boltzmann is “riff-raff” now?!? I get what you’re going for, but c’mon.
To quote twitch chat: “monkaS”
I dunno, I usually open a textbook by turning over the front cover 🥁
Why do we have a 🌫️ emoji instead of a cymbal? It would compliment the drum emoji so well.
This is beautiful and I must study this subject now.
You know; so I have an excuse.
Statistical mechanics is so fucking brutal \m/
…and then we take the partial derivative of the log of this infinite series wrt molar volume to find that–
Why what?
Oh, yeah, it’s so the math works out later! Anyway-
Yeah lol, lots of physics and math was invented by multidisciplinary geniuses who saw equations that seemed to have no answer and said “oh yeah, this looks like a problem from biology that I’ve seen solved with this bit of fluid mechanics, and that problem can be solved with this complex trick from differential calculus. And you know, after we do that the whole system is starting to look like a circuit that uses properties from thermodynamics…”
Then your teacher and the textbook throws it on a white board and says “some smart dude figured out this was the way to solve this problem. It looks like this and it boils down to this equation. Don’t ask questions.”
There’s a mechanics textbook called “there once was a classical theory” and it opens with:
There once was a classical theory Of which quantum disciples were leery. They said, “Why spend so long On a theory that’s wrong?” Well, it works for your everyday query!
you could always just stop studying that field.
So you are just going to live forever?
Of course, but then the book isn’t for you.
does statistical mechanics help explain how often this gets posted here? 🙃
Thanks Thiccle Rick
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
My third year thermodynamics course opened with a similar quip by the lecturer. Entropy is actually depressing. You can’t fight it. You can’t not fight it. It just wins.
WbrJr@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
So… that’s why I never tidy up my room. I’m just too smart!
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Man, you humans are going to be really upset when you find the universal wall…
I mean uh…
Hey, how was the game last night amirite?
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Hupf@feddit.de 6 months ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To quote The Star Child, “What, you haven’t planned that far ahead?”
oce@jlai.lu 6 months ago
Life is a temporary win over it, just enjoy it while you can.
Etterra@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well I mean yeah. It wasn’t my first existential crisis - you get used to them eventually. Or you do what those guys did I guess.