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I was 15 in 2015, and all I wanted to be was a physicist, writes Sparsh Joshi, A fan of Pop-Culture, Science, Philosophy & Politics, published in Cantor’s Paradise.
I had been on a
learning spree of the keywords for years — from the standard model of
particle physics to learning about the ergospheres of black holes.
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I was reading some simple papers and their introduction — blogs, videos, podcasts. I was learning about things like quark-gluon plasma, quantum entanglement, and whatnot. All that seemed weird and wonderful, I had my eye on it.
It was my dream to solve the Hawking Information Paradox and AMPS paradox, both a blend of quantum mechanics and black holes. I remember reading something new in this area and immediately coming up with ideas that I thought were “revolutionary” or “the missing piece” to these problems. I would write doc files with catchy names like “Solving AMPS Paradox using Tensor Networks” or “Creating Chameleon-Electron pairs to Simulate Hawking Entanglement Pairs” with nothing but gibberish inside...
Alas, if I had to pick a subject I was the worst at, it was mathematics...
Becoming Better: How getting better at Math has nothing to do with Math
TIMMS, a series of international assessment exams, is taken all over the world to know the aptitude of people in the universe of mathematics and science. It's a tedious, hard and long exam — 120 questions of hard math problems for 4th and 8th graders of the world just to know more about the way their countries produce math and science-literate citizens. It is a tiring process, especially for kids so small. Naturally, a student would want to leave some blanks. And they do — some even leave as many as 15–20 questions. Yes, some leave one-sixth of the paper empty. Either because they don't know how to solve the question or are too tired of not knowing what to do...
In hindsight, maybe that was what had happened the evening a day before my exams, but maybe the difference was that it was all forced. I was forced to study my books, my worksheets. I was forced by my peer pressure to go beyond my laziness, to pursue each problem with persistent efforts and to see what happened and how it happened. I was pulled by my circumstances to get better, and that made all the difference.
That day changed my life forever — I have grown so much more. From the equations of Euclid to the Reimann Hypothesis, I have unlocked the beauty of nature.
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