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Catreece
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Hey there! Neither am I a student, nor a scientist, but rather someone who works primarily in entertainment. Mostly I work with world design, game design and writing in general, and frequently this leads to needing to know an awful lot of various scientific topics to at least an undergrad level to get things correct enough to be able to make use of them in my work.
This means I have a pretty good comprehension of things like evolution, geology, orbital physics and so on, but mostly just in the qualitative aspects thereof. Enough to write about them without making any major mistakes, and well enough to break down the concepts for readers into laymen's terms, but lacking in the quantitative aspects such as being able to mathematically prove any of it.
Obviously I don't have nearly the time nor finances to dedicate towards the 27 or so degrees I'd want to pursue, so I tend to look up what I can in basic starting sources like Wikipedia or documentaries, then try to get a more refined idea of specific details from various science forums, quora, and other such resources like this one. I generally find it a lot easier to ask questions once I've got the basics down well enough to know what kinds of questions to be asking. And then immediately go on to ask questions that it usually turns out no one has an answer to yet. In my defense, it's not my fault most of the really interesting stuff we barely understand yet. Well, it sort of is. The main reason I find it interesting is we don't know much about it yet. Oh well.
Anyway, I've got at least one question that has been bothering me for over a week now that my other sources have failed to get an answer to me on, so hopefully I can get such (probable) nonsense out of my head here!
In the meantime, pleased to make the acquaintance of those who frequent the forum, and hopefully there shall be some interesting discussions to be had!
This means I have a pretty good comprehension of things like evolution, geology, orbital physics and so on, but mostly just in the qualitative aspects thereof. Enough to write about them without making any major mistakes, and well enough to break down the concepts for readers into laymen's terms, but lacking in the quantitative aspects such as being able to mathematically prove any of it.
Obviously I don't have nearly the time nor finances to dedicate towards the 27 or so degrees I'd want to pursue, so I tend to look up what I can in basic starting sources like Wikipedia or documentaries, then try to get a more refined idea of specific details from various science forums, quora, and other such resources like this one. I generally find it a lot easier to ask questions once I've got the basics down well enough to know what kinds of questions to be asking. And then immediately go on to ask questions that it usually turns out no one has an answer to yet. In my defense, it's not my fault most of the really interesting stuff we barely understand yet. Well, it sort of is. The main reason I find it interesting is we don't know much about it yet. Oh well.
Anyway, I've got at least one question that has been bothering me for over a week now that my other sources have failed to get an answer to me on, so hopefully I can get such (probable) nonsense out of my head here!
In the meantime, pleased to make the acquaintance of those who frequent the forum, and hopefully there shall be some interesting discussions to be had!
