Honestly physics is super simple when you realize nothing makes sense.
And I’m being completely serious. Once you actually truly realize, that the universe is just a total fuckin mess that basically runs on the strongest luck engine there is, it all starts to make perfect sense.
Once you understand the chaos, the order begins to form.
Physics is just us categorizing the relationships between different observed phenomena. “Explanations” are fun, and many can be true at certain scales, but getting deeper into any specific phenomenon is just a rabbit hole that leads to more and more “we don’t know why it does that, it just does and it works in our models.”
Sorry, I see how my post could have read. I was agreeing with you. I just wanted to add on because I think it’s so cool that the only thing we’ve ever really been able to do with all our scientific progress and applied science is establish that when we see one thing happening we can be pretty sure that it usually leads to this other thing and we don’t really know why.
Jackal among snakes
Beware of chicken
Downtown Druid
He who fights with monsters
12 miles below (arguably more scifi but eh)
Primal wizardry
Delve
The great core’s paradox
Here be dragons: book 1 of the Emergence series
Apocalypse redux
Dear spellbook
There are (or were) all on royalroad though some have been stubbed and are now only available on stuff like kindle iirc.
Honestly physics is super simple when you realize nothing makes sense.
And I’m being completely serious. Once you actually truly realize, that the universe is just a total fuckin mess that basically runs on the strongest luck engine there is, it all starts to make perfect sense.
Once you understand the chaos, the order begins to form.
Physics is just us categorizing the relationships between different observed phenomena. “Explanations” are fun, and many can be true at certain scales, but getting deeper into any specific phenomenon is just a rabbit hole that leads to more and more “we don’t know why it does that, it just does and it works in our models.”
Exactly my point!
You can’t get caught up in the why, because at our current understanding, there is no why.
There only is.
Magnetism was my introduction to giving up the “need to know why”.
Why does one pole attract another? It just does.
It just does.
Move on.
Fucking magnets.
oh man if I ever met a magnet in a dark alley
👊🤬👊
Sorry, I see how my post could have read. I was agreeing with you. I just wanted to add on because I think it’s so cool that the only thing we’ve ever really been able to do with all our scientific progress and applied science is establish that when we see one thing happening we can be pretty sure that it usually leads to this other thing and we don’t really know why.
I didn’t take it as contradictory at all!
I was simply acknowledging that you understood my point and put a footnote period to the thought.
being a fantasy novel nerd i like to think of physics as simply being our magic system.
Do you have some fantasy novel recommendations? I’d also like to read some but don’t know what I should read.
Jackal among snakes
Beware of chicken
Downtown Druid
He who fights with monsters
12 miles below (arguably more scifi but eh)
Primal wizardry
Delve
The great core’s paradox
Here be dragons: book 1 of the Emergence series
Apocalypse redux
Dear spellbook
There are (or were) all on royalroad though some have been stubbed and are now only available on stuff like kindle iirc.
Wow! Wonderful. I’m gonna dig into some of these soon!
Thanks!
The truest knowledge is one’s doubt, thus I am, but am I?
See I don’t see it that existentially.
To me it’s more: I am therefore I am. What I am remains to be seen, but still, I am.