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Re:Ask HN: How to self-study physics? by supdatecron on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:39AM (#22694624)
> Most of what you learn in uni physics is Math. But the Math is only one (outdated) description of the nature of physical law.

Is this the lack of additional parameters for the equations? All of my physics problems (only took a couple courses) were like "what if this spherical horse rolled down a hill at 34 degree decline" but failed to include friction, atmosphere. Just gravity. It always felt fake to me. Perhaps this is what you were alluding to by the "outdated" description?

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Re:Ask HN: How to self-study physics? by petermcneeley on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:53AM (#22694791)
By outdated what I more mean is that I think if the greats of the ~1800 had modern computers they would probably not use mathematics in its current form to study physics. There already has been on transition of this kind. Newton used Geometry to study physics whereas today we use Math which more has its roots in symbolic logic.
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Re:Ask HN: How to self-study physics? by Koshkin on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:21PM (#22695146)
If people in 1800s had modern computers we'd be sitting now on ruins of the global nuclear war of 1850 all watching TikTok.
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