Weekend Physics

[lissalysikan]

(LJ seems to be acting up today – fortunately I write in an editor and post from there so if LJ is broke I don't lose it.)

Baby's lectures this weekend were impressive. Totally incomprehensible unless you know the math, but impressive. Punk was left dazed and confused (grin). Baby thinks she's teaching Punk, but the real benefit is keeping her head working – if she isn't constantly learning or working with a subject she forgets it completely. There is no way I want to have to get her to relearn all this stuff, since she already knows a lot more than I do. Her textbooks look like gobbledy-gook to me, but she seems to understand them well enough to pass exams (she writes a lot clearer than she speaks). For her the study of physics – both quantum and classical – is a game, not reality. She loves the math and has no trouble with the apparent paradoxes of particle theories. Tell her something is both a particle and a wave and she happily accepts it. Time dilation? No problem – two clocks each see the other as running slow, that's okay. Although "time" itself is a very fuzzy subject to her – she only really uses "now" and "not now". She does have "times" for the passage of time, but that's a relative term, sometimes modified by big or little (big times, little times). That may be a help in the case of time dilation – no problem if something she doesn't have a strong preconception of changes depending on movement or nearness to gravity wells.

The stuff I post about her "lessons" are really just where she starts. I have to edit them slightly because she doesn't break between words often, so a sentence often comes out of the computer looking like one giant word. It takes time to figure out where the breaks should be, so I only do the "overview" part.

I'm supposed to be working.

Bye for now.

Comments

[hellen-w.livejournal.com]

Lissa dear Lissa, thank you so much for sharing with us what Baby thinks and says, she always surprises me and I think she's very lucky for having a family like yours; evidently she feels good and is serene, thanks mainly to you!!!!!

/me hugs you both closely
*kiss*

[lissalysikan.livejournal.com]

Remember - when I talk about how Baby thinks it is really a "best guess" most of the time. Baby doesn't explain her thoughts often - she assumes I already know them so it would be redundant to state them. When I ask why she said/did something she just says "awready knowed id" - I already know it - and gets mad if I try to push for more details.