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The biggest problem with modern physics is that it's totally incomprehensible. People want to understand how the world works! The public would support physici
by panic 9y ago
The biggest problem with modern physics is that it's totally incomprehensible. People want to understand how the world works! The public would support physicists' work a lot more if they understood what was going on.
- gmueckl 9y agoEven physicists would like to have simple explanations instead of all these mind-bending models that they have to work with. If anything, you have to blame nature for being so incomprehensible.
- wallace_f 9y agoI was reminded of an Einstein quote I'd heard multiple times before. Apparently there is some debate over this, but it has been claimed he said that, apart from maths, all physical theories "ought to lend themselves to so simple a description 'that even a child could understand them.' Other physicists have said similar; while still others, like Feynman, have said what sounds like the opposite. Source: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/22410 https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/22410