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[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 35 points 11 months ago

eh, n=2 isn't enough to make me worried.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 62 points 11 months ago

There are only two kinds of people in this world:

  1. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Not mentioned that Ehrenfest also took his disabled son with him

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 21 points 11 months ago

It's the forbidden study where we seek the godhood

[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 16 points 11 months ago

My favorite class in grad school. Here, let's derive the empirical laws of thermodynamics from first principles based on random movement of atoms.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

NO, I DONT WANT TO KILL MYSELF

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