Whatya reading currently?

Originally Posted by hockey2315

it's anti-string theory. . .

Yes I read about it.
The stuff is very difficult for me.
Quantum mechanics is also very difficult.
The big and the small end of Physics are tough
for things like us in the middle.

It really is just modeling based on some data
and lots of math. It is very counterintuitive to
our everday analogies. So much so that it is
given names that very often innaccurately portray
what the physicists are actually trying to get across.

As an example:
The word Wave in Physics is a very difficult concept.
It seems easy enough, water, waves, but E-M waves
are so much different. But its the best description...

acchhh its kind of like just naming phenomena automatically messes
up the real idea. I dont know if that makes any sense but it
does to a biochemistry guy turned physics teacher.

[hockey2315]

I know what you mean. . . string/m theory, quantum mechanics, etc... are very counterintuitive and hard to understand unless you're a theoretical physicist. . . I'm more concerned with the implications of those types of theories rather than the actual science because I'm a philosophy major. . .

Originally Posted by hockey2315

I know what you mean. . . string/m theory, quantum mechanics, etc... are very counterintuitive and hard to understand unless you're a theoretical physicist. . . I'm more concerned with the implications of those types of theories rather than the actual science because I'm a philosophy major. . .

Never took a Philosophy class and I curse myself.
Very cool stuff.

I have a few books by Bertrand Russell,
The History of Western Philosophy was one and it was very cumbersome
but very interesting. I was totally blown away that people were
thinking so deeply so far back. Huge misconception I had.
I was especially interested in the logic stuff. The civics
and way to govern stuff not as much. And then I read this
stuff about Kurt Goedel in a book called Pi in the Sky
and that just through me for a loop.

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Never took a Philosophy class and I curse myself.
Very cool stuff.

I have a few books by Bertrand Russell,
The History of Western Philosophy was one and it was very cumbersome
but very interesting. I was totally blown away that people were
thinking so deeply so far back. Huge misconception I had.
I was especially interested in the logic stuff. The civics
and way to govern stuff not as much. And then I read this
stuff about Kurt Goedel in a book called Pi in the Sky
and that just through me for a loop.

Maybe my favorite philosopher

[Mortimer]

"Maybe"



Oh skip it.

[hockey2315]

It makes sense that way too morty. . .

"Maybe he's my favorite philosopher"

"He may be my favorite philosopher"

What are you doing in here? Wouldn't this be considered a "smart thread"?

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

It makes sense that way too morty. . .

"Maybe he's my favorite philosopher"

"He may be my favorite philosopher"

What are you doing in here? Wouldn't this be considered a "smart thread"?

Hokey.....we've covered what a smart thread really is.


This is the epitome of a "smart " thread.

Originally Posted by hockey2315

Maybe my favorite philosopher

It was very difficult for me to get through his book.
His writing style is the kind that makes me reread things
over and over.
I have notes all over in it after I deciphered something.

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by pgardn

It was very difficult for me to get through his book.
His writing style is the kind that makes me reread things
over and over.
I have notes all over in it after I deciphered something.

I'm much the same with Stevie Hasbeen articles

[Mortimer]

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