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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco
LOVE ECO. LOVE.
But this makes me sad. Why shouldn't there be an underlying truth?? I would so like that. You know, I think that's the major decision that physicists have made - whether to go on as though everything had a reason and a structure, or whether we will arbitrarily be finding more and more random things (like string theory or M theory or whatever) after a while. Some physicists have actually broached the idea: do you think we'll find something that will pull everything we know together, or will we keep digging through layers of .... stuff?
I am in Engineering because I want solutions and I want answers. I am in Liberal Arts because I know you can't always find those. I like the fact that the world we know of is run by definite physical rules, and I like to believe that these exist all the time and are not arbitrary. I like the fact that the world can be understood, in short - and for those who think that the magic is taken out the trick of gravity once you know Einstein or Newton, I beg to differ.
Knowing is the magic.
- Umberto Eco
LOVE ECO. LOVE.
But this makes me sad. Why shouldn't there be an underlying truth?? I would so like that. You know, I think that's the major decision that physicists have made - whether to go on as though everything had a reason and a structure, or whether we will arbitrarily be finding more and more random things (like string theory or M theory or whatever) after a while. Some physicists have actually broached the idea: do you think we'll find something that will pull everything we know together, or will we keep digging through layers of .... stuff?
I am in Engineering because I want solutions and I want answers. I am in Liberal Arts because I know you can't always find those. I like the fact that the world we know of is run by definite physical rules, and I like to believe that these exist all the time and are not arbitrary. I like the fact that the world can be understood, in short - and for those who think that the magic is taken out the trick of gravity once you know Einstein or Newton, I beg to differ.
Knowing is the magic.