theoretical physicist reads: love, theoretically

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Published 2024-02-08
Please believe I have nothing against romance novels, just this particular romance novel.

I am going to hard pivot this channel into #booktube I just read The Chrysalids and it was so good.


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All Comments (21)
  • @uilsoum875
    String theory couldn't destroy theoretical physics but jacks paper could
  • @MonocleTopHats
    The year is 2033. Shooting for the Love Theoretically movie adaptation is about to begin. Screenplay written by Ali Hazelwood, completely faithful to the book. She was so excited they'd use her script in the movie. They ask Ali if she'd like to come tour the set. She scoffs, disgusted. How dare they. She's a *theorist*"
  • @F1nnyF6
    Definitely not beating the 'Jenny Nicholson of Phsyics' allegations, and I am here for it
  • @korhonenmikko
    Hmm, not sure the compliments "the sexism is realistic" and "the binding is nice" are enough to convince me to read this.
  • @grego5939
    11:26 theoretical researchers are more excited than experimentalists about going to the lab. They get all the fun without the "shit I gotta align this again"
  • @Hailfire08
    The "but my models are just theoretical!" absolutely killed me. What a ludicrous statement, like a scriptwriter being shocked that someone wants to turn their script for a movie into a movie, because 'it's just a script!' The tattoos bit is amazing too, i love this channel
  • @maol2038
    I was literally in the process of commenting that this video has big Jenny Nicholson energy and then you hit me with the "this is published Reylo fanfic"
  • @LIEF640
    had war flashbacks to homestuck when she asked if five acts in a story is possible
  • @vanillaramen13
    the book is like "there were two factions of science... and they were at war..." and the reality is that the two factions are made of the same people
  • @legendzero6755
    I like how during the "compliment sandwich" portion of the video, the first compliment to the novel was just "The book seems pretty sturdy!"
  • 54:00 I 100% expected the complex harmonic motion example to just be one with air resistance and dampening added in so it stops after 2 swings
  • @beguinemystic
    theoretical physics is when you do a epic math, and experimental physics is when you wear a lab coat and goggles
  • @manwalrus
    As a librarian who uses Goodreads to help catalog books, I can only say that the regular Goodreads crowd is utterly unpredictable and actively makes looking for books to recommend to people confounding.
  • You know, they said it would never work between us We're from completely different worlds Me, an applied mathematician And you, a theoretical physicist with a master's degree in applied mathematics But I've been crunching the numbers of our romance and it seems we're uniformly converging to the same limit of real infinite love.
  • @sirnate9065
    "Wait, are you serious? Are you really going to make my recipe? It's a purely theoretical recipe." hahaha I love it.
  • @gin2072
    When the passage about his physics equation tattoos started I lost it. And your visual of it was even better
  • @matthewr8502
    I am a T1 diabetic and actually started having a hypo as I started to watch this video. So as my brain started to shut down and the “cog fog” descended and then Angela was talking about the heroine feinting from diabetes it all got, as the kids say, very meta. Angela is making a teaching point here, I thought, and the teaching point is go to the kitchen and get orange juice and consume that instead of watching YouTube in bed. So I did that and that is the story of how, at the risk of being melodramatic, Angela reviewed a terrible book and in doing so literally saved my life. And now I am watching the rest of the video only this time with an adequate level of blood glucose.
  • @raskov75
    Wow. The commentary about Emma Noether is pretty devastating. One one level it's professional malfeasance not to include such a beautiful piece of real life analogy, which is one of the reasons we read, which any author would be guilty of of, but for someone purporting to write 'steminist' lit, it's like giving someone 'ramen' that you made with spaghetti noodles.
  • @dacjames
    > I’m trying to explain how stupid it is but it’s so stupid that I can’t explain how stupid it is. Classic, I’ll be stealing this line.