I stopped working on black hole information loss

Re:I stopped working on black hole information loss by mungal on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:35PM (#31135784)

I’ve seen this sort of reactionary response in mathematics and music as well.

When talking to a musical educator complaining about struggling students just starting out I’ll say “I found it extremely helpful to paint the C major scale on my guitar when learning music theory.”

And they respond “Well what about chromatic 12 pitch atonal music?! What would Anton Webern say?!”

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Re:I stopped working on black hole information loss by wumpus on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:50PM (#31135927)

As someone who has studied GR (at the grad school level) and music, no, that's a terrible analogy.

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Re:I stopped working on black hole information loss by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday April 23, 2022 @06:40PM (#31139362)

In GR terms, Levi-Civita is more like "This is a major scale and you need to know it" than serialism.

Some subjects are just plain hard and only accessible to smart persistent people.

GR and QFT definitely qualify - but they seem to be warm up exercises compared to whatever Quantum Gravity will eventually become.

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Re:I stopped working on black hole information loss by sidlls on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:18PM (#31138098)

Eh, no. The problem with your analogy is that the “not linear algebra” bits aren’t esoteric, rarely practiced or used edge cases: they’re the core of the mathematical model.

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