Hey /sci/ If we wanted to set up a number of postulates from which we can derive all of physics if we needed to what what would they be?
From what I'm thinking we would have to define a number of physical quantities like canonical forms of displacement, velocity, inertia, instance, momentum, force, energy and action and laws that hold true in all circumstances so basically the laws of thermodynamics, least action principle and the fact that speed of light will be invariant in all reference frames and the highest possible speed achievable.
> He always wore formal suits. He once wore a three-piece pinstripe while riding down the Grand Canyon astride a mule. Hilbert is reported to have asked, "Pray, who is the candidate's tailor?" at von Neumann's 1926 doctoral exam, as he had never seen such beautiful evening clothes.
>Von Neumann liked to eat and drink; his wife, Klara, said that he could count everything except calories.
> In Princeton, he received complaints for regularly playing extremely loud German march music on his phonograph, which distracted those in neighboring offices, including Albert Einstein, from their work.
> Von Neumann did some of his best work in noisy, chaotic environments, and once admonished his wife for preparing a quiet study for him to work in. He never used it, preferring the couple's living room with its television playing loudly.
> Despite being a notoriously bad driver, he enjoyed driving—frequently while reading a book—occasioning numerous arrests as well as accidents. When Cuthbert Hurd hired him as a consultant to IBM, Hurd often quietly paid the fines for his traffic tickets.
> Von Neumann entered government service primarily because he felt that, if freedom and civilization were to survive, it would have to be because the United States would triumph over totalitarianism from Nazism, Fascism and Soviet Communism. During a Senate committee hearing he described his political ideology as "violently anti-communist, and much more militaristic than the norm". He was quoted in 1950 remarking, "If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?"
> After the war, Robert Oppenheimer remarked that the physicists involved in the Manhattan project had "known sin". Von Neumann's response was that "sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it." Von Neumann continued unperturbed in his work and [...]
Don't know if this is the right board for this, but someone help me out. I've always read that alcohol makes antidepressants stop working, but what does that mean, exactly? I know it takes a few weeks for an antidepressant to start working once you've started taking it. Does alcohol "reset" that progress and make the medicine stop working for another few weeks? Or does it just make it stop working for that day? I can't find an answer online.
Does the owner of a small business really follow microeconomic models of production and consumption?
I dont think, so what does he base his decisions on?
I'm aware of the "as if principle".
There's so much I want to understand like economics, politics, history, chemistry, physics but my 120 midwit brain just can't grasp concepts. and a pathetic 120 IQ is just not competitive in the modern job market (being able to solve data structure problems on the fly, solve applied science problems using principles recalled from memory, etc.), I just can't compete so I'll be relegated to low level wagie jobs forever. so on top of not understanding the world I inhabit I will be a poor low status cuck too. how the fuck do I cope with midwitdom? To think with just 10 more IQ points I could have led a successful life
