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CURIOSITY - Featuring Richard Feynman
youtu.bethe sum of something simple plus a tiny perturbation, solve everything exactly for the simple part, then add in the rest bit by bit.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
The German physicist Max Planck calculated the electric field in equilibrium in a hot box. To do this he used a trick: he imagined that the energy of the field is distributed in “quanta,” that is, in packets or lumps of energy. The procedure led to a result that perfectly reproduced what was measured (and therefore must be in some fashion correct)
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“ Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t... See more
Brain Food: Embracing Life
inertia: if a particle is moving it keeps on going in the same direction unless forces act upon it.
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Penrose’s world is fundamentally very different from what existing physics describes.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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there is a rule in quantum mechanics that says that one cannot know both where something is and how fast it is moving.