/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15408689
Start by playing KSP. Gives you an instinctual understanding of orbital mechanics. Will make any material easier to digest, no matter how poorly written.

>>14833941
-- "shut up and calculate". My impression is that Gödel, Heisenberg, Dirac, Hilbert, etc. wanted to really know things, today it seems mostly "activate autopilot and play a symbol manipulation game".

-- low hanging fruits.

-- confusing science with technology.

-- Inflation in academia. I'm not sure if I would have been able to study at university around 1900 (for example no latin any more). I saw a lot of people in math (at ETHZ), who were not _that_ good at the topic itself, but at learning / preparing for specific tests.
It's not about the subject, about curiosity, it's mostly about optimizing credit points

-- conformism, the well known problems like "purish-or-perish" and stupid politically-motivated narratives like "diversity" and "international teams". Lots of the important/big stuff were done by single people at a large time range: Kant (over 10 years), Gettier, Wiles (almost 10 years), Einstein GR (also about 10 years), Perelman

etc. etc.

Look at Leonard Susskind. I'm a fan, watched more than one of his "physics for old people" lectures on youtube. But look at his papers, you find stuff like definitions of things like "tomperature", not even sure if he is trolling or serious. Let the man thing, for 10, for 20 years if necessary and don't force people like him to publish garbish.

>>14777729
https://xkcd.com/1356/