crammed into already impossibly tiny and awkward spaces (what would be the mathematical expression for rooms in which one can scarcely squeeze a fart sideways due to precariously stacked tomes?) suggests that, while I would like (very much!) to acquire an understanding of how physics works, I do not have that knowledge yet.
HEY, I KNOW! I’ll find some books about how people who hoard books about how physics works understand, in fact, very little about how physics works.