Paean

[nostalgebraist]

I am majoring in physics. Why on earth would a person do that? I'm not sure how many of my friends actually have any idea why the subject appeals to me, since I don't talk about it much around people who aren't also physics majors. Here is an attempt at explanation.

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[nightspoken]

Well put. I know what you mean, because you are fluent in language as well as math. (Thus demonstrating my own bias towards written English, which I have this exact feeling about, except that I have horrible stage fright about showing my lovingly arranged puzzles to anyone else. You can prove that a theorem is correct, or at least as close to absolutely correct as you can get, but you can't prove that a perfectly worded sentence is as perfectly worded as you think it is. Someone else will always miss the resonance

[papertopic]

this was a good read, as I've never been exposed to physics in school (ever) and all I knew about it is that it was some heavy math stuff. I would make more comment but I need to finish damn you for being interesting