I Think The Really Cool And Compelling Thing About Math And Physics Is That It Opens Up Entry To All These Hypotheticals - Or At Least, It Gives You The Language To Talk About Them. But At The Same Time, If A Scenario Is Completely Disconnected From Reality, It's Not All That Interesting.

-Randall Munroe

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I Think The Really Cool And Compelling

Randall Munroe

I Think The Really Cool And Compelling Thing About Math And Physics Is That It Opens Up Entry To All These Hypotheticals - Or At Least, It Gives You The Language To Talk About Them. But At The Same Time, If A Scenario Is Completely Disconnected From Reality, It's Not All That Interesting.

Topic

Math

Reality

Thinking

Space Is About 100 Kilometers Away. That’s Far Away—i Wouldn’t Want To Climb A Ladder To Get There—but It Isn’t That Far Away. If You’re In Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, Central Japan, Central Sri Lanka, Or Portland, Space Is Closer Than The Sea.

Japan

Sea

Sri Lanka