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After spending the last five years trying to explain math to a general technical audience, I'd agree with this, but with one minor change: s/smart/dumb :)
by j2kun 11y ago
After spending the last five years trying to explain math to a general technical audience, I'd agree with this, but with one minor change:
s/smart/dumb
:)
- repsilat 11y agoI find it gets harder and harder to do as you progressively become more affected by the topic. I like to think I'm pretty good at explaining concepts in physics to lay audiences, but the more real physics I do the more I think like a physicist, and the less I can see what an explanation looks like to the layman. Quantum mechanics is the worst. I dislike a lot of the "popular science" language and analogues used to describe it, but the real (academic) pedagogical material is completely inappropriate for regular people. I'm worried that I'll be an inscrutable physicist before I grok it well enough to explain to a highschooler, though.