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.
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So.. that's why I never tidy up my room. I'm just too smart!
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?
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
Thing about Arsenal is they always try and walk it in
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All we have to decide is what to do with the entropy that is given us.
To quote The Star Child, "What, you haven't planned that far ahead?"
Life is a temporary win over it, just enjoy it while you can.
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.
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...?
We are all gas with a slightly denser particle distribution.
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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.
I'm not entirely sure of that. You can't have comp sci without algebra and potentially calculus. I could see a society that developed all three fields before they codified Physics
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Sure you can. Physics is describing what is, computer science is building what could be
The two things require very little overlap. Even physics systems in video games don't use real physics - it just feels better when you fudge it
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?
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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.
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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 sum wrt molar volume to find that--
- Why?
Why what?
- helplessly gestures at the whiteboard
Oh, yeah, it's so the math works out later! Anyway, for small Θ, the derivative has a nice closed form that we can Tailor expand in f-
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.
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