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i likewise had a suspicion that @beyond_turbulence is a bot; whether or not that's true, the information coming from the user is fascinating; right now i am learning the Quadrivium for the first time, going thru the introductory section on polyhedrons... then it's onto the music and then cosmology;
i think that staying for too long in any one rabbithole is not healthy, since everything is interconnected, and the logical mind has to take a break once in a while!
anyways, fluid dynamics applied to economics is not a far-fetched idea for me; i don't know much of either discipline, haha;
i likewise had a suspicion that @beyond_turbulence is a bot
true enough
the information coming from the user is fascinating; right now
yeah :)
right now i am learning the Quadrivium
wow! that's an uncommon subject. So you'll be pursuing philosophy?
anyways, fluid dynamics applied to economics is not a far-fetched idea for me; i don't know much of either discipline, haha;
lol
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the Quadrivium is the foundation of all that human psyche can understand... and that any foreign/alien intelligence can understand; all life is based in Quadrivium! the shapes and numbers are universal, have been around forever; the esoteric meaning of the numbers have not been taught in school; the magic relationships are not a funny coincidence, yet the school system has us believe that there's nothing to it beyond magic tricks;
Arithmetic (number) -> Geometry (number in space) -> Music (tempo)-> Cosmology (number & tempo in space)
these steps cannot be skipped; those who jump into Cosmology without thoroughly studying the Number will get lost in the weeds very quickly;
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true enough, although in India we follow a different curriculum that is rougher, you can say. There is a big knowledge gap between Grade 12 -> IITs
Example for a person pursuing astrophysics:
Most students think “IIT = freedom to study stars.”
In reality, you’ll be hurled into a curriculum built for engineers, not dreamers of galaxies.
Your first two years - Mechanics, electrical circuits, calculus, thermodynamics, and a soul-crushing schedule of labs and assignments that test not curiosity, but endurance (nothing related to space yet)
Astrophysics comes after you’ve crawled through that engineering purgatory. It’s like wanting to gaze at the Milky Way but being handed a wrench to fix the observatory first.
Extremely basic curriculum idea:
- Tensor calculus (for general relativity)
- Quantum field theory (for particle cosmology)
- Numerical methods and differential equations (for simulations)
- Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics (for stellar structure)
till 2nd year 😂
Around 3rd year, when your peers are preparing for placements or startups, you’ll start realizing the price of genuine curiosity 😂
You’ll sit with research papers you can’t fully understand. Professors will talk in tensors and not simple english. You MUST earn trust through projects and papers and then you can get to tie-ups with IUCAA, TIFR, and PRL that too as an apprentice, then you have to do at least 10+ projects as an apprentice till you get access to a lab or project or funding.
By that time, your crush would have had a family with 2 kids and you'll be left gazing stars for the rest of your life :)
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Amen
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Numbers obfuscate!
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Thanks a million !
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