What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists

Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by lasfter on Thursday August 11, 2016 @03:36PM (#12271027)

The issue is that there are different infinities. The infinity the parent is talking about, the one that you generally run into in calculus class and the like, is straightforward. The research in the past century was about what happens _past_ infinity, e.g. ordinal numbers.

I'm no mathematician either, so I'll stop there before I embarrass myself. The most accessible resource I found was this VSauce video [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU9YDoXE88

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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by iammyIP on Friday August 12, 2016 @07:20AM (#12274676)

Regarding the video: The contraproductive and unnecessary use of pretty loud 'background-music' is pretty distracting and ruining this for me. It's a disregard for music and i view it also as a disregard me as a viewer, like it's assumed i wouldn't be able to listen to someone speak without the elevator soundsystem blaring around. They also do this on the radio when they tell you the weather forecast: of course only with loud music playing. And i then have to separate and throw away most of that audio info to get the information i want. Like everything wants to be a horrible rap song. I don't get it. This needs to stop.

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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by mindcrime on Thursday August 11, 2016 @04:21PM (#12271309)

That was a very interesting video, thanks for sharing. Now I'm going to be addicted to VSauce...

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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by 77pt77 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:31PM (#12272745)

That video is surprisingly decent given the abstract nature of the subject.

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