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Hilarious! This is the usual problem with rigorous physics/engineering: we don't understand it ourselves, and rather than being honest about it, we quote mat
by wbeaty 16y ago
Hilarious! This is the usual problem with rigorous physics/engineering: we don't understand it ourselves, and rather than being honest about it, we quote math at you. It's like doctors in 1700 falling back to Latin in order to hide their embarrassing ignorance from the public. In reality, "If you can't explain it to your grandmother, then you don't understand it yourself." (A. Einstein.)
Similarly, if you asked me some eletronics questions about a piece of complicated circuitry that I didn't understand, I could baffle you with BS. It's simple, I just pull out the equations from the SPICE component models. (As if owning the printout of the software can tell us anything about the behavior of the simulated circuit!!)
So, whenever you see an expert pull this crap, give them the above Einstein quote.