4 · Nobody Understands Rain

You don't "decide" which framework is true. You hold them all, let them interfere, and the interference pattern is your understanding. There is no single answer — you have this pool of candidates for the truth, and as the days go on, some days A is the answer, and some days the antithesis of A is the answer, and sometimes the synthesis is the answer, and sometimes the antithesis of that synthesis is the answer. This is what Feynman meant when he said, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." You're not trying to understand it. You're becoming it.

Quantum mechanics must be studied as a duty. It's truth, but there is something holy about it. Something is so fucking off — it distorts and challenges the entire perspective through which we view things. It goes against almost everything in Newtonian mechanics.

To really be good at olympiad-level physics — the research type of work — you need to look at the philosophy and the meaning of an equation, not just coldly memorise it. What is the meaning behind the formula? Why is this not overcomplication, but a simplification masquerading as complexity?

I mean, if waves are just something that oscillate, is stuff really moving? When you really start to deeply understand physics — which I am so pumped and excited for — then in a sense everything is static. This reality is static, and it's just frequencies vibrating into certain things. Anybody who says that science disproves God has no basis in science whatsoever. It makes absolutely no sense for physics and its laws to just happen by chance. There has to be some conscious, intelligent figure who is the creator of all this beauty.

Superposition, the multiverse, the parallel universe. A conditional probability cascade is a sequence, like a Markov chain, where everything is contingent on the previous outcome. You are astronomically lucky to exist at all — for your great-to-the-power-of-infinity ancestor to meet a certain person at a certain time, and all of that, is unfathomably rare.

The bell curve of viscosity in fluids is generally more spread out relative to that of gases — not because viscosity in fluids correlates positively with temperature while gases correlate negatively, but because the mechanism by which adjacent layers transfer momentum and resist shear is fundamentally different. The main reason for the wider spread — orders of magnitude across different liquids, versus gases clustering in a narrow range — is that difference in physical mechanism. Order of magnitude: 자릿수. Kind of like figures, a technical term in physics.

It's amazing how, throughout the torrent of humanity, someone's magnum opus becomes a normal tool. It's insanity.

Only a matter of technological advancement remains before you can experience virtual reality with all the technology packed into a thin lens worn on your eyes — and then discernment between reality and virtual reality becomes not almost, but empirically, literally, technically impossible. And now what is truth?

With the rise of quantum computing, cybersecurity will be a massive problem, because all personal data will be accessible to everybody, and tech is already pointing toward the wall of privacy collapsing. Quantum technology — using quantum mechanical phenomena like superposition and entanglement for computing, cryptography, and sensing — is potentially revolutionary for the optimisation problems relevant to finance. It's something you should lean into; the quantum mechanical laws are truly profound and unorthodox, candidates for edge in markets.