spmatich :blobcoffee: on Nostr: npub1zdp33…2vqv8 to study physics you need to train your mind to hold concepts that ...

npub1zdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dq42vqv8 (npub1zdp…vqv8) to study physics you need to train your mind to hold concepts that aren't necessarily intuitive. It takes loads of practice, just like learning to play the piano and read musical notation. It's hard. You don't get endorphins like you do when you practice exercise. Subscripts, superscripts, brackets, derivatives, integrals, vectors, tensors and more. It takes a lot of dedication to train your mind to hold all those abstract thoughts in a meaningful way. That might be why it's called hard science. It's not just Algebra and Calculus though. It's also about *measuring* stuff, which is the part that makes it not magical. Without measurement, theory is just ideas, which can take any form whatsoever. The fact that abstract ideas can be used to predict stuff that happens in the real world is what grounds physics in reality. #physics