I have no beef with the epiphanic moment - the "upsight" of great wonder. I too have transcended the bounds of time and space. It's just really hard to keep track of a PDE while you're doing it.
And I hesitate to take the deterministic "there's a formula for everything" angle. I distinctly remember sitting in a vector calc classroom, looking at a (x,y,z) vector field and thinking how beautifully Hobsian it all was. But it fails in the big macro scale, and it fails on the tiny personal scale. It's a good local model for crude events.
There's a huge, HUGE gap between "discover it" and "do it," and that's what the drugs hide.
Re: back to the orange juice after brushing teeth
And I hesitate to take the deterministic "there's a formula for everything" angle. I distinctly remember sitting in a vector calc classroom, looking at a (x,y,z) vector field and thinking how beautifully Hobsian it all was. But it fails in the big macro scale, and it fails on the tiny personal scale. It's a good local model for crude events.
There's a huge, HUGE gap between "discover it" and "do it," and that's what the drugs hide.