It seems strange labelling this as only my second Physics fail since there have been so many. For example some homework I got the other day which was the write up for an experiment I got absolutely everything wrong! I didn't convert from millimetres, I got the speed = distance over time equation wrong (I know how unbelievably stupid that is!) and I went so completely wrong with uncertainty calculations its hard to even summarise my mistakes! But this was too boring to write about so it doesn't count.
My second official Physics fail is particularly bad because I seem to have been stuck with it for quite some time. I was reading a Physics book (which I've almost finished and will write about later) and they talked about how nature seems to prefer neutron stars to black holes. This took me by surprise because I had never thought of nature in space before. When I think of nature I imagine green spaces, baby bear cubs, homegrown potatoes and rainbows. Nature is something that is natural to me, something normal and common place. The methane seas and red skies of Venus is anything but natural to me. And yet, of course it is natural. It is the same laws of nature that govern all the planets, all the stars and all of everything. The whole point of Physics is linking all of these things, I'm quite embarrassed to have missed this point before. The word nature and all its derivations will never mean the same again!
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