Without him dreaming up his experiments and tinkering away, god knows when Maxwell's equations would have been discovered.
Why did we have to wait for a Faraday to show up to do his simple experiments? How come all the natural philosophers and mathematicians of the age, around the whole planet, had not thought to do them?
If Faraday had asked that bunch how do I self-study physics the answers wouldn't have been too different to what we see today.
Today's version of Faraday could very well be some kid hacking away at some computer game, dreaming up scenarios, exercising imagination and cooking up experiments in the same way Faraday did.
If you want to do a standard study in physics you are probably going to go through a significant amount of mathematics. This is because the laws "universe at the most fundamental level/low level" are expressed as math equations. If OP wants to go that route then there are tons of resources available to them.
But since OP already has a CS degree I think a possible entry point is exploring these laws through computers and in some way deriving them from simulation (here is one such simulation https://www.falstad.com/gas/)
lets leave the more outlandish claims alone for now. Perhaps I went to far.
>There are two kinds of physics, Math and Physics. Most of what you learn in uni physics is Math. But the Math is only one (outdated) description of the nature of physical law.
Lord knows what you mean by this. By "math physics" do you mean theoretical, and by "physics physics" the experimental part? Even then, this doesn't make any sense. Every physics course teaches theory and experiment. Particularly, what do you mean by "Math is only one outdated description of the nature of physical law"? I'm very curious, maybe I'm missing something.
>Leonard Susskind himself has said on multiple occasions that the equations of physics are at most highschool math however the solutions are sometimes phd+ level.
So? Again, I don't see what you're trying to imply with this. Seems a perfectly correct observation.
>To me Physics is the study of the relationship between state. Mostly this state is finite and the laws governing its evolution are simple and local. A computer is the best tool to discover the solutions to this evolving state.
This to my opinion is, for a lack of a better word, "hipsterism". Physics is the science that studies the universe at the most fundamental level/low level. That's it. "State"? "This state is finite"? What do you mean by "this state is finite"? I struggle to see what this is trying to describe (there are infinite degrees of freedom in many theories throughout physics).