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Although, what's ''really interesting'' is when the ordinary conceptions, say of space and time, are "broken" or seem counter-intuitive, and how generalizations or reformulations can be made, including:
The ''really interesting'' subjects occur when ordinary conceptions, say of space and time, seem counter-intuitive, and how generalizations or reformulations can be made, including:


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In the very first encounter of these subjects, one can find a surprising number of applications of taking real-valued derivatives of functions, or geometric objects with [[fractal dimension]]s that can be [[transcendental number]]s and not just natural numbers. Compare these to how dull things like [[real analysis]] and [[Euclidean geometry]] are.
There are a surprising number of applications of taking ''n''th-order derivatives of functions where ''n'' is a [[real number]] and not just a natural number, and most real objects have [[fractal dimension]]s that can be [[transcendental number]]s and not just natural numbers. Compare these to how dull things like [[real analysis]] and [[Euclidean geometry]] are.

===Non-academic===

Non-academic recreation includes:

*drawing (usually self-similar mathematical patterns, based on fractals, or [[Japanese manga]] characters),
*listening to music ([[emo]], [[heavy metal]], [[J-rock]] music, sometimes manga themes like from [[Naruto]]),
*sometimes [[juggling]] (up to 5 balls in two hands, and 3 in each, far from 6 balls together though),
*[[jigsaw puzzle]]s,
*going for walks and [[mountain bike|biking]] (through the city or less often the nearby country),
*playing [[chess]] (and try to contemplate the logic and [[combinatoric]]s of each move, perhaps even the sensitivity of a move in relation to the outcome of what follows),
*sometimes play the [[Rubik cube]] (and contemplate the opaqueness of [[group theory]]!),
*spinning a gyroscope on the tip of something point-like such as a biro pen (and contemplate [[angular momentum]]).

===Thoughts on wasted expertise===

In all years of civilization - science, mathematics, technology, industrialization have developed far slower than they could have because of irrelevant and empty customs, religions/superstitions, and personal preferences of those who lead/take charge of things blocking the way. How many potentially brilliant minds have been (and still are) WASTED in slavery, poverty, wars...?

Today, in the '''''21st century''''', instead of military expansion and application - governments and armies from every country should drop their weapons, disarm, leave the armies, and transform all expertise, time, energy and resources in creating weapons of mass death and destruction with hellish poverty as a result into:

*space technology,
*particle physics facilities,
*renewable energy sources,

since these

*require the very limits of people's minds and talents collaborating to create the finest cutting-edge technology, so people are challenged, work hard, gain tremendous experience and satisfaction and results in the process,

*encourage, interest and demand new future generations of professionals in all areas (not just science/technology/engineering but business, finance, econometrics, computing, media, education...), hopefully less crooked yobbos on the streets,

*are peaceful, although inevitably stressful times and disagreements/conflicts will arise; that is a million times better than going to war by compromising there and then, and the excitement of probing into outer spacetime and developing new technologies should assist removal of violent/criminal attitudes,

*are generally beneficial for our knowledge, planet, and civilization...

Of course, this is all just a utopia...


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Date: Sunday, July 21, 2024
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User:UBX/Religion Is Harmful

Undergraduate in theoretical physics and applied mathematics, completed 3rd year and proceeding onto 4th year in late September 2013. This account is not named after the place Maschen in Germany, Harburg: it was coincidence to combine "Machine" into a "name-like" term.

Generally, I like logic, symmetry, duality, and self-similarity underlying fundamental principles of any form of knowledge, although also like randomness, chaos, irregularity and non-linearity also, because nature isn't "perfect" and regular.

Academic

Primary academic interests are in general formalisms and fundamentals, mainly in (with much exposure to the literature, but no solid expertise):

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Fundamental physics

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Applied mathematics

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Pure mathematics

to an extent, including:

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History

The history of mathematics and history of physics make interesting and worthwhile reading too (if one can filter through any biases).

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The really interesting subjects occur when ordinary conceptions, say of space and time, seem counter-intuitive, and how generalizations or reformulations can be made, including:

There are a surprising number of applications of taking nth-order derivatives of functions where n is a real number and not just a natural number, and most real objects have fractal dimensions that can be transcendental numbers and not just natural numbers. Compare these to how dull things like real analysis and Euclidean geometry are.

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