The two periods where I have learned the most was
- When I had a good sparring partner who also was passionate about space, cosmology and physics. Here not only did we challenge each-others and help each-others learn, we would also share YouTube videos of known physicists and popular scientists and articles we came across which we found interesting and thus continuously keep each-others engaged and challenged.
- When I had to learn away maths to someone else. It is interesting how when you are forced to be able to explain something you understand simply you learn to see the material from different angles and an understanding that is a lot more fundamental.
Great post as always Cryptogee!
Thanks for sharing!
I can really relate to number 2. There have been times when I have felt a bit woolly on a subject, and then I have explained it to somebody at an earlier stage than me. Usually I surprise myself with how much I actually know and then like you say; sharpen my own understanding.
I would love to chat physics with you; I have so many crazy ideas (not backed up by maths) that I would love to talk with you about.
For instance I'm interested to know if we could trigger a second iron catastrophe on Mars and thus create another magnetosphere. I would want to do this by burrowing deep into the planet (with an, as-yet-undiscovered material) and pouring in molten iron.
I know there are gravity issues, but surely we could do this one day?
Anyway, I digress, thanks for your comments! :-)
Cg