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why is this being called the Dane Cook of intellectual reading and grandma tier science?? genuinely confused

>> No.8594228
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>>8594187
because it's pop science for the "i fucking love science" facebook crowd who actually think they're learning something from heavily reified abstractions that pass off formalism for facts about the world

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>bought Penrose's Road To Reality, time to get smart niggah
>gave up after 50 pages, realised that I'm an intellectual midget, cried myself into sleep

>> No.8594247

>>8594228
oh that makes sense thanks, I read it years ago when I was like 14 and it's what got me interested in Physics/Astronomy so I guess I must be a little defensive of it lol

>> No.8594251

I have a friend, who after reading this book, believes that he has a basix understanding of physics when he has never even worked on a fucking a force problem. This book is not necesaairly cancer, but it gives plebs ammunition to believe that they understand complex, abstract subjects in physics by reading them in a book, and never have to worrt about working out problems becuase math is hard, and it is much easier to regurgitate shit one does not understand.

>> No.8594332

>>8594247
Only 14? Wow, that's so young.