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There are only two kinds of people in this world:
And statistical mechanics is a topic that unironically open the mind on what is reality and life.
Boltzmann was one of the greatest mind ever lived
My favorite class in grad school. Here, let's derive the empirical laws of thermodynamics from first principles based on random movement of atoms.
It was third year physics for me, and the professor opened with what was the paraphrased version of the above quote. One of the hardest classes we ever took. Very cool to see statistics used in a proof like that.