opaqueice;235411 Wrote: > 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!
At the risk of threadjacking... I wouldn't doubt you know him. And I totally understand that he wasn't being mean when he said that, he was being completely honest. With the language of higher-level mathematics, he probably could explain it to me; unfortunately, I don't possess a background in mathematics deep enough to be able to understand it. It's fascinating stuff though, peering in from the outside, but I'm afraid that will always be my vantage point. Are your public lectures going to be in California, by any chance? I'd be of a mind to attend, if that's possible. -=> Jim -- JimC "well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that." -- BKlaas' college buddy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38902 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
