the universe how it governed

[Darkover]

if only i could learn all this then i would be the master of the universe
if only i was smart enough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%27s_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equations_for_a_falling_body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(unit)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_wave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplitude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_a_circle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_vector

 

[Pluto]

 

[AbusedInnocent]

Most of these seem fairly simple, is there a reason you think you'll never be able to understand it?

I've seen many of your posts and I have to say I'm a fan, you're really thoughtful and I don't see why you'd have trouble with any of this.

 

[Pluto]

I should add, I recently discovered the StarTalk YouTube channel. I never paid much attention to Neil Degrasse Tyson previously since I assumed he was more of a celebrity than a scientist, but I was wrong. He's almost always on the money, his explanations are masterful and his co-host's frequent diversions into comedy are not only hilarious, but the pauses help with processing the information. Wikipedia is a compromised way to learn by comparison so I only use it to answer very specific questions.

This is the level of knowledge that is suitable for the layperson. Understanding complex formulae and such is not necessary. In fact, just the other day, I made a point in a post about everyday terminology (sunset, sunrise and retrograde) being technically inaccurate due to pre-dating our contemporary heliocentric understanding of the solar system. I picked that tidbit up from this show since it has philosophical implications.

 

[escape_from_hell]

You can learn those things. Have faith in yourself about that. Ask AI to summarize them for you. Everyone shits on AI but ask Copilot or Pi to break those concepts down for you, they can do a better job at it than the vast majority of humans and teachers can. They are unlikely to hallucinate if you feed them links to summarize what you want, and the idea is to keep asking them until you understand anyway. They are better because you can keep asking them, without any shame, to break it down simpler and simpler, each step, and they'll probably get what you mean.

I understand most of those topics you linked from various classes for an engineering degree. But that is not a brag, at all, because I can assure you: knowing those topics will not make you a master of the universe. And, many people like to masturbate with big theories and pat themselves on the back but nobody knows how the universe is governed in an ultimate sense. People saying they have the answers to the big mysteries of the universe is a big red flag that such a person is a bullshitter, nutter, or both.

But if you want simple literacy in a lot of major topics in science Stephen Wolfram's "Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others" is a decent YouTube podcast that covers a lot of viewer questions in that ballpark, and he breaks a lot of things down more coherently than my college instructors who were mostly foreign grad students trying to conduct research instead of teach did.