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eh, n=2 isn't enough to make me worried.
There are only two kinds of people in this world:
- Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
there's always an xkcd
Not mentioned that Ehrenfest also took his disabled son with him
It's the forbidden study where we seek the godhood
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
My favorite class in grad school. Here, let's derive the empirical laws of thermodynamics from first principles based on random movement of atoms.
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.
NO, I DONT WANT TO KILL MYSELF
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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