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.”
How to open a textbook
Submitted 7 months ago by Maven@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world 7 months ago
gibmiser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So… is Goldstein still around or did he…?
Maven@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t worry, he’s alive: His wiki page
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
Apparently still alive at 85: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goodstein
Zehzin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s still time
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
We are all gas with slightly denser particles.
🔫
hernanca@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We all are vast collections of harmonic oscillators.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
id want to kill myself too. just from the very little i know from computer stuff, imagine doing an entire semester
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Physics ≠ Computer Science
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Can’t have computer science without physics.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Thank you for this, it was new to me
Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 months ago
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.
Avg@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Is the grad school in the room now? Do you need help?
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Grad school? This is for 4y bachelor studenat
Custodian1623@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bachelor student? I learned this in high school
fizix@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
normanwall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Light, why do you behave differently when I’m looking at you?
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Because you’re touching them with your eyes
psmgx@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Weed out the riff-raff who can’t hack it
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Boltzmann is “riff-raff” now?!? I get what you’re going for, but c’mon.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
To quote twitch chat: “monkaS”
astreus@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I dunno, I usually open a textbook by turning over the front cover 🥁
CluckN@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why do we have a 🌫️ emoji instead of a cymbal? It would compliment the drum emoji so well.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 7 months ago
This is beautiful and I must study this subject now.
You know; so I have an excuse.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Statistical mechanics is so fucking brutal \m/
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 7 months ago
…and then we take the partial derivative of the log of this infinite series 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-
Donkter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.”
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
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!
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
you could always just stop studying that field.
nexguy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So you are just going to live forever?
hglman@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Of course, but then the book isn’t for you.
triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 7 months ago
does statistical mechanics help explain how often this gets posted here? 🙃
avogadro@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thanks Thiccle Rick
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
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.
WbrJr@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
So… that’s why I never tidy up my room. I’m just too smart!
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
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?
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Hupf@feddit.de 7 months ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To quote The Star Child, “What, you haven’t planned that far ahead?”
oce@jlai.lu 7 months ago
Life is a temporary win over it, just enjoy it while you can.
Etterra@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.