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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

being a fantasy novel nerd i like to think of physics as simply being our magic system.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you have some fantasy novel recommendations? I'd also like to read some but don't know what I should read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Wow! Wonderful. I'm gonna dig into some of these soon!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly my point!

You can't get caught up in the why, because at our current understanding, there is no why.

There only is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fucking magnets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

oh man if I ever met a magnet in a dark alley

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