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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

in grad school i was really into doing math that was like loosely inspired by physics but saved you from having to do any real physics and now i'm wondering how much of that was coming from like a suppressed desire to just actually do real physics

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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just struck by how reading actual physics for a few days straight has caused me to almost completely lose interest in pure math

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

when i tweeted this it was a half-joke but. hmm. hmmmmmmmm

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· Jan 22, 2021

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

i've written a lot of math posts but most of them were not as thrilling to write as this physics post where, after staring at a fire for awhile, i went through the derivation of planck's law for black body radiation from quantum statistical mechanics

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What’s a fire, and why does it – what’s the word – burn?

I was staring at a bonfire on a beach the other day and realized that I didn’t understand anything about fire and how it works. (For example: what determines its color?) So I looked up some s…

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

after you do this calculation you can approximately infer the temperature of the surface of the sun from the wavelengths of visible light friggin sweet

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@Real_Lets_Talk

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Sounds like you're heading towards something you want to do in life, congratulations!

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@SlideGlideNRide

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We need nuclear fusion and quantum computers. Physics will always be more important than math IMO.