Granted, provided you're not doing it for the sake of doing it and know what you want to get out of it.
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Hey nothing wrong with doing just because.
I imagine myself going back to school to study physics after I retire. I think actually going to a school would be fun
I love Physics too. But I'm deep down an economics and politics rabbithole that's been too damn fun.
If education itself in the end and there's enough savings to dispose of, then it'd be cool
If the goal rather is to learn things that would help one survive in the world, I doubt it's advisable
Yeah I’m in computer science but man physics is calling me. Metaphysics really…
Even with programming, it’s far more efficient to learn on your own than to go to school
I did computer science as well. Felt the same way about Physics a whole ago. Astrophysics my favourite though. Wouldn't mind going back and learning the basics tbf
Programming is cool.
But I've always loved writing. So I chose that as my career.
I’m drawn to CS because using any software ever pisses me off and I always bitch and moan about it. So I’m going to become a lead developer so my bitching and moaning is productive 🤣
But man the stars call to me
Being drawn to something that posses you of is.. fascinating 😂
Black holes were interesting to me because of the singularity.
But what has really spooked me is concept of infinities. The infinitely large and the infinitesimally small and the infinites in other measurements of the natural world, like heat, gravity, mass, etc.
My brain couldn't comprehend them when I first thought about them. Had to acknowledge the fact that natural sciences have its limits.
You know I realized something recently: science cannot truly prove infinity.
By definition, science is finite.
And I also think that our conscious experience is produced by finite computations in our brain, so our conscious experience is literally incompatible with the idea of infinity.
I still have faith infinity exists though lol
Infinity does exist a priori and independent of proof though.
It's like our natural rights. We don't need to prove that they exist. They simply exist because we reason about them.
Not necessarily. I came to these conclusions when thinking deeply about simulation.
It would require infinite energy to simulate truly analog data with digital computation. So if we can prove something is truly analog, or continuously variable, then we can prove that we do not live in a digitally computed simulation. The issue I found is that science literally cannot prove with 100% certainty that something is continuously variable or infinite in any way. It can only prove something doesn’t end within the bounds of the test. Thus, I remain unsure of whether we live in “base reality” or not.
I agree that it’s useless to live as if infinity doesn’t exist. Whether we have true infinities or illusions of infinities makes little difference in life. I’ll conclude by saying that I have faith that infinity is real. This has greatly strengthened my faith in God.
My point is, there are scientific truths that do not require proofs in order to be true.
You can simply arrive at them through your reasoning faculties and know it to be true absent of evidence.
The concept of infinity is one of them.
P.S. Since your handle's name and picture refer to anarcho-capitalism, I'll leave you with a book recommendation that is a wonderful read for anyone who loves both science and liberty:
https://mises.org/library/book/economic-science-and-austrian-method