I think you make a great point about adding even further abstraction. I was inspired by Michael Nielsen's idea of "Discovery Fiction"[0], and porting the Sussman library gave me the idea that building the abstraction layers required to to do the physics in "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" would make for a great narrative backbone.
I DID start the newsletter thinking I would read Road to Reality and get a community going around the book, and I still want to do that! What happened there was when I tried to talk about the book to anyone that wasn't already dialed on the math I was learning (close family, my wife, software engineer friends) I found that I couldn't communicate what I thought was so beautiful about the book and Penrose's development.
I wanted interactive visualizations that could run in the browser to function as little set pieces, so I could set them down and say
- look, this is what I mean!, and
- Here, you take the controls, let's play!
TRTR will come in, mixed in, I hope, with executable Feynman Lectures etc...
Hopefully that helps fill in some context that I left out!
Your project sounds really cool. From the title though I came in expecting some connection to the Penrose book, and then increasingly wondering if there is one or not -- it'd help to get that question out of the way right away.
Thanks for the additional comments. I love (but cannot understand 95%) Road to Reality and would love to have a community around the book, so super excited about any such effort.
I DID start the newsletter thinking I would read Road to Reality and get a community going around the book, and I still want to do that! What happened there was when I tried to talk about the book to anyone that wasn't already dialed on the math I was learning (close family, my wife, software engineer friends) I found that I couldn't communicate what I thought was so beautiful about the book and Penrose's development.
I wanted interactive visualizations that could run in the browser to function as little set pieces, so I could set them down and say
- look, this is what I mean!, and
- Here, you take the controls, let's play!
TRTR will come in, mixed in, I hope, with executable Feynman Lectures etc...
Hopefully that helps fill in some context that I left out!
[0]https://michaelnotebook.com/df/index.html