I took a gamble. i barely touched physics over the weekend, thinking that i should start studying for H3 maths instead. the entire weekend, i only did one physics mcq. well, i lost my bet, and my gut feeling for today's physics papers is ominous. oh well, i don't really have anyone to blame for this except myself. when you gamble, you have to be prepared to lose, especially when the stakes are as high as this.
i'd be lying through my teeth if i said it didn't suck to have to leave the 25s and 27s after lunch while they went off for LAN, but i already lost physics to H3 maths, and if i still fail then i'm seriously going to start smashing stuff around me. but in any case, it's only another 2 days, and it's not like i'm the only one, so i don't really have a reason to complain. just gotta suck it up and deal with it for another 48 hours.
here's a video that jonathan posted on his facebook wall. be warned though, it's part 1 out of 10, and will take up about 2 hours of your time if you watch it all at one go:
it really makes you think. while any JC physics student would know that certainty in physics, in the corporeal world, has long been thrown out the window with the arrival of thermodynamics and quantum physics, the video has opened my eyes to uncertainties that lie deeper still. it has taught me that even in the abstract realm of mathematics, supposedly logic in it's purest form, there are uncertainties. in essence, the only thing we know for sure is that we cannot know for sure: there are somethings which are true but which we will never be able to prove, and we basically have to take a leap of faith. but perhaps that is what's so amazing about uncertainty: that no matter how complete a field of study is, there will always be someone able to offer something new to it, to keep it alive. here's my favourite quote from the video:
"A timeless and perfect world never changes, but it is dead."
