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Title: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Selkie on August 19, 2011, 03:35:37 PM
No matter how hard you try?

Chemistry, for me. And I am really making an effort to get it because the subject interests me and I may pursue a chemistry minor.

I actually just bought a General Chemistry book at Borders today. Got it half price.



So, hbu? It doesn't have to be a large subject like mine was, it can be something miniscule.
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: snoorkel on August 19, 2011, 04:24:12 PM
The mercies of God.

edit: [spoiler]no jk there is nothing I can't comprehend.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Andria on August 19, 2011, 04:28:38 PM
people 5thgrade;
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: FAMY2 on August 19, 2011, 05:03:29 PM
Any dimension past the fifth.  doodhuh;
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Nyerp on August 19, 2011, 05:12:39 PM
Quote from: FAMY2 on August 19, 2011, 05:03:29 PM
Any dimension past the fifth.  doodhuh;


you mean the third right
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: FAMY2 on August 19, 2011, 05:32:51 PM
Quote from: Nyerp on August 19, 2011, 05:12:39 PM
you mean the third right


I kinda sorta understand the 4th and 5th.   doodthing;
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: ?????? on August 19, 2011, 05:46:59 PM
kissing
caring about money
tourist attractions
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: snoorkel on August 19, 2011, 06:03:19 PM
Quote from: FAMY2 on August 19, 2011, 05:32:51 PM
I kinda sorta understand the 4th and 5th.   doodthing;


higher dimensions are just planes (for example) wrapped up in geometrical structures of advanced complexity, represented in 2d/3d projections by the 5-simplex, 6-simplex, 7-simplex, etc (or matching hypercubes) until you reach the proposed 11-dimensional shape, whose cross-section in 3d space would look like:

[spoiler](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NinLXIHoRk8/TcleL0_Lt_I/AAAAAAAAACk/QL0iyHJQTcE/s1600/calabi-spin.gif)[/spoiler]
this is just a simple plane, but in 11 dimensions.

For comparison, 4th dimension is a plane wrapped into rotating taurus.

for mind blowing but comprehensible explanations of this I would recommend Coxeter's 'Regular Polytopes'
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Mando Pandango on August 19, 2011, 10:05:07 PM
snorkel, taurus is the constellation, torus is the shape.

Anyway, calculus. It's something someone like me shouldn't have much trouble with, but I only half-understand calc 1 material, and calc 2 can fuck right off.
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: snoorkel on August 19, 2011, 10:19:40 PM
Quote from: Man of Popcikle on August 19, 2011, 10:05:07 PM
snorkel, taurus is the constellation, torus is the shape.


lol you're right, I was high when I typed that.
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Mando Pandango on August 19, 2011, 10:22:51 PM
I just assume you're high all the time.
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Wrench on August 19, 2011, 10:28:47 PM
Calculus

Don't know how I'm going to pass Calc 2
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Mando Pandango on August 19, 2011, 10:42:58 PM
Quote from: CM Wrench on August 19, 2011, 10:28:47 PM
Calculus

Don't know how I'm going to pass Calc 2
I guess it's a capricorn thing.

I don't believe in astrology but it makes me feel better that you're bad at it too goowan
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: ?????? on August 20, 2011, 02:18:19 AM
Quote from: Man of Popcikle on August 19, 2011, 10:42:58 PM
I guess it's a capricorn thing.

I don't believe in astrology but it makes me feel better that you're bad at it too goowan
i'm a crapicorn too and i intentionally repeated alg ii to never touch calculus  giggle;
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: musica.cards on August 20, 2011, 04:28:02 AM
magnets

[spoiler]how do they work?[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Nyerp on August 20, 2011, 05:17:59 AM
the popularity of my little pony: friendship is magic
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: ikanaide on August 20, 2011, 07:27:15 AM
what is musica.cards
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Andria on August 20, 2011, 09:29:48 AM
Quote from: Nyerp on August 20, 2011, 05:17:59 AM
the popularity of my little pony: friendship is magic

it's something you have to watch with an open mind to understand
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Nyerp on August 20, 2011, 01:47:42 PM
Quote from: Squid Girl on August 20, 2011, 09:29:48 AM
it's something you have to watch with an open mind to understand


wow echo you're so forward-thinking
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: silvertone on August 21, 2011, 02:52:23 PM
The story of Rahab in the Bible, too much of a paradox for me to get it.
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Travis on August 21, 2011, 04:10:12 PM
Quote from: ikanaide on August 20, 2011, 07:27:15 AM
what is musica.cards
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: Commander Fuckass on August 21, 2011, 04:16:24 PM
this no activity  akudood;
Title: Re: Is tere anything you just cannot comprehend
Post by: ME## on August 21, 2011, 05:02:32 PM
how football manager so accurately simulates bad refball