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Posted by: Nick Newman

I have a question to the people who admit students to the A New Kind of Science School.

I am a rising senior at high school and just found out about A NEW KIND of Scicene. I am really interested in exploring more about it. My background is very humble I have only read a few parts of the online book but I will do more!!!
I checked last year's candidates profile and to my regret I realized there were all college students ?

I asked my teachers about NKS and they don't have a clue what this is; they were just smiling when they heared the name and when I showed them version of the online book they said it must be a "soft science" approach and advised me to get information from first hand. So, would you accept high school students who are interested in mathematics and physics ?

Is it possible to receive input from people who were at the summer school before ? to ask them questions and that like ?

Thank you,

Nick


Posted by: Michael Kreutzjans

A New Kind of Science is mathematics and essentially nature at its most abstract level. Your teachers probably assumed that because you received it at Barnes and Nobles that somehow it was less sophisticated than technical literature online or what they were taught as being sophisticated and abstract like partial-differential equations and ring theory etc. A new kind of science will have as much future impact as Euclid's Elements and other great works. I want to remind you I am also a high school student and I firmly believe it is the greatest book I've ever read and also firmly believe that it would change greatly anyone who has ever read it. People are always interested as to why it intrigues me, but I suppose its impossible to understand until you read it. A New Kind of Science isn't a special group of axioms like ring and generalized group theory but a totally new perception of our world at the most fundamental-at least yet- level in human thought processes.




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