After a month
After a month of anti-social feelings, I want nothing more than to snuggle up to someone I love and trust and just be.
But it won't be happening any time soon. Ah well.
Christa, thanks to Peter, is still trying to help me stretch my brain around string theory with my minimal mathematical background. I'm trying to understand the relation of the equivalence principle to the gauge symmetries of the three non-gravitational forces (strong, weak, and electromagnetic). I think I'm reaching my cognitive limit...and it doesn't help that physicists still haven't developed that theory of everything that bares the inevitability principle, and which string theorists eagerly anticipate the arrival of. Does someone have to be an Einstein to have that moment of clarity which casts illumination into the dark corners of theoretical physics?
Some days, feeding my brain hurts.
But it won't be happening any time soon. Ah well.
Christa, thanks to Peter, is still trying to help me stretch my brain around string theory with my minimal mathematical background. I'm trying to understand the relation of the equivalence principle to the gauge symmetries of the three non-gravitational forces (strong, weak, and electromagnetic). I think I'm reaching my cognitive limit...and it doesn't help that physicists still haven't developed that theory of everything that bares the inevitability principle, and which string theorists eagerly anticipate the arrival of. Does someone have to be an Einstein to have that moment of clarity which casts illumination into the dark corners of theoretical physics?
Some days, feeding my brain hurts.
posted by KR | 6/20/2005 11:52:00 PM
3 Comments:
A) Having passed through an anti-social phase myself I understand. I wonder at these times. Are they just natural respiration at work? I wonder: People in, People out.
B) I am going to try to allow Roger Penrose with his The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe to help carry me to the mystery of string and all the other physics that are so math intensive that words in other languages generally fail to carry a precise enough meaning.
I'll definately look into that book. Thanks for the tip :)
Don't feel bad about not completely understanding the string theory.
I have two geology degrees and I don't quite understand it either. I didn't do well in Math and I made Cs in my three Physics classes as an undergrad and a B and a C in my graduate-level Geophysics classes.
But then with having two part-time jobs, looking for more employment, and having two kids, I haven't had time to immerse myself in reading about it.
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