/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.10938811]

How do you cope with the fact that a large portion of science and math is something a human being cannot possibly rationalize in a common sense way?

You are supposed to "make sense of the world", but on some level you just have to put blind faith in what has already been established. You cant just go around questioning everything because that ultimately just leads to madness, but at the same time something might technically work even if the reasoning is wrong.

How the fuck do you deal with this problem? Am I just supposed to shut up and say "It just werks."?

[Anonymous No.10938843]

>>10938811
>modeling power for my term paper
>model doesn't add up
>take some approximation from my ass
>11th order model becomes 7th order model
>it works
>can't prove it mathematically

[Anonymous No.10938847]

>>10938843
Fuck I meant power converter.

[Anonymous No.10938853]

>>10938811
Some will learn, many do, cover up or pass it on

I want the fear, need the fear

[Anonymous No.10938857]

>>10938811
I make frodofag shitposting threads on random boards when I should be doing something that at least provides real pleasure to me

[Anonymous No.10938859]

>>10938857
hey wait
great smile
sensitive to fate not
denial
but hey whos on trial

[Anonymous No.10938903]

>>10938811
>How do you cope with the fact that a large portion of science and math is something a human being cannot possibly rationalize in a common sense way?
Human beings have massively different psychologies and widely different aptitude for comprehending abstraction. It doesn't bother me if lesser minds cannot grasp the beauty of this mathematical universe: sure as a proof, certain as an algorithm, pure as a theorem. I can yammer with Yahweh, shimmy with Shiva, and stroke the face of 1.

For I have a gift, for I work wonders, for I am free.

For I am a scientist.

[Anonymous No.10940267]

>>10938811
Intelligence comes only with a lack of intelligence
Humanity is forever bound to dwell in ignorance obfuscated thanks to themselves by their own little circle of intellectually interpreted data that resonates amongst their own species.
We're idiots that taught themselves they get to understand their own existence, all you speak of is a part of a smaller subset of this delusion. It appears it doesn't matter, though we would never know.

[Anonymous No.10940675]

>WE LITERALLY cannot understand it
Not in the sense than we, common people, idiots, cannot understand it, only, a couple of scientist can. Even they cannot.
In what sense? In the sense that
IT JUST WERKS

[Anonymous No.10941911]

>common sense
>common

[Anonymous No.10942306]

>>10938811
We'll never know anything with absolute certainty. Just take the skeptic pill and accept it. The only knowledge actually worth anything is whatever works.

[Anonymous No.10942334]

>>10938811
no, it make sense, you must meditate on it, think about it, until you have a profound understanding

[Anonymous No.10942338]

>>10938811
You can rationalize, you're just a lazy fat burger. Also math is a fantasy, it has nothing to do with the world.