i skipped ahead in the book queue a little bit. lately we've been watching a lot of shows about the universe, so i wanted to read my black hole book. i've been so curious lately about physics, mainly astrophysics, so i've been reading and watching practically everything i can get my hands on.
i don't know much (quite the understatement.) i never took a physics class in high school or college. i took astronomy and chemistry in high school. so i feel like i'm missing out on the basic principles of physics. so i've decided to start from the beginning. but i tell you, everywhere i start...when explaining the most basic principles of physics...i'm always redirected to another starting point. i feel like i keep losing sight of the beginning because there isn't one. there is just no beginning because in order to understand something as simple as space or time, you have to redirect to another beginning...spacetime. and once you understand spacetime, you can understand space and time. maybe.
and i didn't even set out to learn about spacetime. i set out trying to figure out where the heck gravity comes from. i was redirected from gravity to go learn about special relativity. and now special relativity is talking about nuclear radiation and how that works. so now i have to go learn about that. when will i be finding out about gravity? i just want to know where it comes from!
it seems to me that physics is a huge undertaking. if you want to understand this world, you're gonna have to bust your tail. i don't know how i feel about all the math involved...because it's basically doing math with the alphabet. and that don't make no sense.
this has to be the most dorky thing i have ever written in my entire life.
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