I've decided to call irrational numbers infinidecimals. It is an accurate description and totally an excuse for a terrible mathematical pun. Bazinga!
Today, this is a list of some of my favorite wiki pages, and potentially ones that I think everyone should read because they are interesting, or useful in maintaining a good long-term perspective on things, or are 'common knowledge' that more commonly gets terribly misinterpreted or misrepresented, or link to other pages that I also consider to be my favorites. A lot of these go a lot further than is taught in schools (I'm looking at you, states of matter and the lie that there are only three states), others are definitely technical, but all are things that I think are important for people to know and understand. I'm not including everything but I am putting down a lot (and not in any specific order), but these articles link to each other and more, and if anyone has the guts for a wiki dive of massive proportion, I suggest reading each item here, and everything that they link to. I've tried to limit it to physics, although there is a bit of math and philosophical/future speculation in there. Read 'em if you want, suggest other pages that are important to understanding physics, the universe, and our place in it. I feel it is important to have a good, accurate base of knowledge about the world, and this is one way I see to help achieve that. Lets see where this goes!List of common misconceptions (Gotta start with this, of course)List of emerging technologiesTimeline of the far futureRisks to civilization, humans, and planet EarthObservable universeUltimate fate of the universeFermi paradoxGreat filterMultiverseShape of the universeIntroduction to quantum mechanicsMetamaterialsClosed timelike curveNovikov self-consistency principleSuperfluid vacuum theorySpacecraft propulsionSpace fountainStates of matterCherenkov radiationBosons vs FermionsPauli exclusion principleSupernovaStellar evolutionDegenerate matterNewton's laws of motion (specifically, their validity)List of unsolved problems in physicsList of unsolved problems in mathematicsMillenium Prize problemsP vs NP problemArrow of timeEntropy (Arrow of time)Demon coreGravitational singularityKerr metric and ErgosphereSpeed of gravityList of paradoxesDoomsday argumentSimulation hypothesisQuantum suicide and immortalityChiralityCharge-parity violationCausality (physics)Planck constantElementary particleAntimatterIsotropy vs AnistropySpecial relativity vs General relativityTranshumanismOutline of transhumanismNon-aggression principleNeural engineeringHuman enhancementBiohackingTechnological singularityMatroishka brainSupervolcanoRaven paradoxEquivocationList of fallaciesand this because it is weird.and this too.I also suggest you find and read Arthur C Clarke's short story The Other Tiger.Finally, I leave you with this, if you haven't seen it. If you have, you get a silly face instead -> :P
That video. That's excellent.
That list of common misconceptions was interesting.I just finished reading all of these and I feel the slightest bit more intelligent than before.
I also found the most important Wikipedia article of my life. The Doomsday argument is quite interesting.