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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

eh, n=2 isn't enough to make me worried.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are only two kinds of people in this world:

  1. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

there's always an xkcd

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Not mentioned that Ehrenfest also took his disabled son with him

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

It's the forbidden study where we seek the godhood

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

And statistical mechanics is a topic that unironically open the mind on what is reality and life.

Boltzmann was one of the greatest mind ever lived

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My favorite class in grad school. Here, let's derive the empirical laws of thermodynamics from first principles based on random movement of atoms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It was third year physics for me, and the professor opened with what was the paraphrased version of the above quote. One of the hardest classes we ever took. Very cool to see statistics used in a proof like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

NO, I DONT WANT TO KILL MYSELF