That or the right job application and a lot of propellant and oxidizer - but seriously, don't do that. It didn't end well for Icarus. Gravitationally-driven open-core fusion reactors are best admired from a safe minimum distance.
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The math isn't really the main limiting factor to getting close to stars.
but you need to have significant math skills to even understand physics in general.
Nah, the math used in physics is just a tiny tiny part of wider math.
If you learn just a little bit of math you can realize that no one else is getting anywhere near them either.
Next year, Voyager I will have traveled 1 light day. It will also be over 49 years old at that time. Think about that for a moment. Almost 50 years to travel the time it takes light to travel in a single day. Our closest star is Proxima Centauri at 4.25 light years away. To reach Proxima Centauri, Voyager I would need to travel ~77,500 years. Voyager 1 is one of the fastest man-made objects in existence and it would take far longer than the entire history of civilization to arrive.
Space is big.
Eh, I remember just googling space stuff and absorbing info and that alone had enough dopamine. My world was so small before I got access to the internet, when I was a kid, I had a children's book about science stuff, stars, but they barely had much info. Internet access was so magical. Unlimited information.
Nah, just take a positional average and you're pretty much in the middle of one!
KSP 2 was a cash grab, but KSP 1 is still a very good experience.
I interpreted this to mean that you need to learn a lot of math in order to have a career in astronomy. I don't think OP thought it was possible to actually go to the star and math was the limiting factor.
This requires lots of Physics. The math required is relatively minimal.
I thought they meant movie stars and meant you could only get near them by becoming an engineer. I'm... not that smart at certain hours of the day.
Just define "star" to include Earth, then you're already very close to one!
reading that as "stairs" was hella confusing for a solid minute.
yes, astronomy, astrophysics, if yuo dont have knack in that field you wont get into it. physics, if you cant pass simple CComunity level physics classes(for scientists, not for life sciences), you wont pass upper division physics.
That’s because math is fundamentally flawed.
Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone, they get all upset about it.
Interesting! Could you elaborate on this? I'm intrigued to know the intrinsic flaws.
Kurt Gödel wrote a whole paper on it.
He used math to show that all statements, in any language, can be expressed as math statements. He then proved that it's impossible to create any consistent set of math statements that completely describes everything.
That's not a flaw. It's one of the greatest mathematical revelations of the 20th century.
It's only a "flaw" for people who want to believe in some imaginary positivism. This is a popular grift under capitalism. See also the entire field of economics.
euclidean geometry is famously complete
Nah, euclidean geometry was not complete. Tarski didn't come up with a complete version until the 20th century. I'm not sure how famous Tarski geometry is, but it doesn't seem very famous in USA outside of math depts.
this doesn’t mean that “it’s impossible to create any consistent set of math statements that completely describes everything,”
It says far less than that: "It’s impossible for a mathematical system containing the natural numbers to be both complete and consistent."
In itself it has very little to do with physical reality. I think it's more about how we think about math and then its applications.
reality itself could be a complete system, understandable from both the outside and inside if only viewed at the right angle…
This has been largely debunked.
hilbert’s dream is not dead yet,
I dunno what his dream was, but Hilbert's program is very much dead.
It has to do with creating measuring devices out of what we can empirically derive, and building successive generations off of those. It’s fine for our local system but by the time you get intergalactic (or quantum) with it, flaws start to propagate themselves bigly.
I can’t reveal more at this time or Big Math will get suspicious.
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