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look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,
If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.
Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.
What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.
Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.
Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.
Bitches love to be like "science sucks where are the eldritch horrors where is the knowledge thats maddening to know" that's thermodynamics motherfucker. The first two world experts in thermodynamics (Ludwig Boltzmann and Paul Ehrenfest) both killed themselves because they had to do fucking thermodynamics
90% of particle physicists give up on bigger colliders right before finally discovering supersymmetric particles #NeverStopBuilding
russian roullette but it's just a physics student with anxiety drinking lots of coffee everyday without knowing which day will be the day their anxiety will kill them
once a year i think to myself "it would be cool if i knew things about physics" and then i do nothing to act on it
the past couple months i've really been faced with the question of "why do you study astrophysics" and. uh
i don't know if I'm passionate about what i do because i know a lot about it, or if i know a lot about what i do because I'm passionate about it
because i definitely did not give two shits about space until maybe the last year of high school. but to be fair i did not give two shits about anything
Newtons 4th law is that for every "it's so over" there's an equal and opposite "we're so back"