https://xkcd.com/2904

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‘At the stroke of midnight, your brother will be hurtling sideways at an altitude of 150 meters’ is a regular physics prediction about your nonmagical trebuchet, whereas ‘you are cursed to build a brother-launching trebuchet’ falls out of the Lagrangian.

  • Flying Squid
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    69 months ago

    It could be, but I don’t mix up numbers, I just can’t grasp concepts. Equations mystify me.