Inner product space Updated 2025-07-16
Subcase of a normed vector space, therefore also necessarily a vector space.
A Chinese Ghost Story sutra Updated 2025-07-16
Appears to be a small section from the Diamond Sutra. TODO find or create a video of it, it is just too awesome.
Dragon boat (pipa piece) Updated 2025-07-16
This piece is a reference to Dragon boats from the Dragon Boat Festival.
The explosive moments presumably represent the intense rowing action of a dragon boat race competition.
TODO date composed.
Video 1.
Dragon boat performed by Yuanchun Yu (2021)
Source.
Liu Dehai Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1.
Liu Dehai peforming at the Musée Guimet in 2010
. Source.
Placenta Updated 2025-07-16
Angel Updated 2025-07-16
Guqin piece Updated 2025-07-16
Physics Updated 2025-07-16
Physics (like all well done science) is the art of predicting the future by modelling the world with mathematics.
And predicting the future is the first step towards controlling it, i.e.: engineering.
Ciro Santilli doesn't know physics. He writes about it partly to start playing with some scientific content for: OurBigBook.com, partly because this stuff is just amazingly beautiful.
Ciro's main intellectual physics fetishes are to learn quantum electrodynamics (understanding the point of Lie groups being a subpart of that) and condensed matter physics.
Every science is Physics in disguise, but the number of objects in the real world is so large that we can't solve the real equations in practice.
Luckily, due to emergence, we can use uglier higher level approximations of the world to solve many problems, with the complex limits of applicability of those approximations.
Therefore, such higher level approximations are highly specialized, and given different names such as:
As of 2019, all known physics can be described by two theories:
Unifying those two into the theory of everything one of the major goals of modern physics.
Figure 1.
xkcd 435: Fields arranged by purity
. Source. Reductionism comes to mind.
Figure 2.
Physically accurate genie by Psychomic
. Source. This sane square composition from: www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/u08dw3/nice_guy_genie/.
Time dilation Updated 2025-07-16
One of the best ways to think about it is the transversal time dilation thought experiment.

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