Hey guys, brainlet here. I really like reading pop sci books, have read surely you're joking mr feynman and some brain books like pic related. I don't know anyone else who reads non-fiction in their spare time, seems like everyone in my math/science classes (general chem/mechanics/calc 1) don't talk about science outside of the classroom.
Where do I find the turbonerds who have read the original works of newton/Euclid, or even just some pop sci books? I'm not interested in sports and talking about video games all the time is dull, but it's the only common ground I have with people usually. My already tiny brain is turning to mush.
>>9138131
That reminds me of a more interesting and rigorous science book written for a general audience. I haven't read it but I highly respect the author and his work, check it out.
Excellent observation. Most people's interest stops at the extent of thier official obligation. The real physicists who will bring us into complete paradigm shifts are those who endlessly discuss foundational questions in physics, such as the unsolved 19th century electromagnetic paradoxes as elucidated by the ignorant Ashkenazi, Feynman, in his noble speech. If feynman had bothered to care about the foundational questions he complained of not solving, he would know that these late 19th century mysteries were solved in the mid 19th, by weber's force law. Shrodinger in the 1920's, used webers force law to derive the precession of the perhelion of mercury's orbit, shrodinger's physics friends cared about physics, but feynman and his friends only cared about prestige, and so lacked the necessary curiousty in thier discussions which never led to the information which Feynman needed to solve what he and other late 20th century thinkers believed in ignorance of weber, we're still mysteries, lol.
>>9138131
go to grad school, i swap non-fiction science oriented books with people all the times, i actually got laid because of a book on prions, not even joking. well not really because of it, but it was used as a segway to get me into her room
Try meetup.com, I went to a meet up about the future of machine learning that I had absolutely no business going to (I'm a massive brainlet).
I try to read non-fiction in my spare time (mostly textbooks or journal articles) but I honestly don't have the discipline or focus.