JimC;234687 Wrote: > My cousin is a professor and research physicist at Stanford, working on > the SLA. I'm a pretty smart guy by most measures of intelligence and > can hold my own with him on a wide variety of topics. I once asked him > if he could explain QM to me. >
I probably know him. I think the thing to remember here is what Darwin taught us. Our ancestors had to have a very good intuition for human-scale classical mechanics - like predicting the trajectory of a rock through the air. If they didn't they died. And in fact we're really, really good at that (think baseball). But there's no reason we should have a good intuition for anything else, and in general we just don't. Physics is weird and non-intuitive, and the only way to understand it is to approach is carefully, systematically, and mathematically. It's very difficult to communicate it to a lay audience without simplifying it to the point of basically lying. I'm actually going to be giving a series of public lectures soon, so I'm thinking about how to do this quite a bit - it's hard! -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38902 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
