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Sadde is home; it's a Friday evening, his shift is over, and there's no school. He's reading a book, lying on his bed in his small-but-tidy apartment.
He is also quite naked, because it's his place and why not?
Glam and Ashras in Wormverse
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mxglam
the-long-dawn
So far today I have reluctantly decided not to waste my time on: learning ancient Greek, figuring out how to get a computer to type in my native alphabet, understanding string theory.
mxglam
Well, given how fast you learned English when you are quite possibly the closest thing to an alien on Earth, I'd give you a month.
the-long-dawn
The motivation isn't there, sadly. Very few people will be unable to speak to me unless I learn ancient Greek in particular. I might actually want to pick up a second Earth language someday, but it'd probably be something widely spoken. And I wouldn't be nearly as good at it unless I moved somewhere where hardly anyone speaks anything else. Which I don't want to do. Then how would we save the world together?
mxglam
Well, yes, but why were you researching physics in the first place and what were you researching that would lead you to want to consider studying a vague ill-defined theory of everything?
the-long-dawn
I was researching physics as part of giving myself a comprehensive education, and something mentioned string theory and it looked cool.
mxglam
Well, it's kinda cool, until you look a bit into it and find out what a kludgy mess it actually is.
mxglam
There are enough free variables that you could basically invent any kind of physics there! It's pretty much this insert-your-own-physics mold, and the predictions we haven't verified are so ridiculously hard to that not verifying them isn't even actually that strong evidence against it.
mxglam
:D
Well, now you know of another good reason not to study string theory, i.e. it's probably not true.