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The amount of things you need to learn in biology is truly hard, though from what I've heard, there's nothing harder than quantum physics, since it's so fundame
by april_22 4y ago
The amount of things you need to learn in biology is truly hard, though from what I've heard, there's nothing harder than quantum physics, since it's so fundamentally different from how we're used to seeing things.
- discordance 4y agoDon't believe the hype. Follow the math where your instincts fail you. Check out HyperPhysics if you haven't seen it. Provides a super useful map where you can see how all the concepts relate and how they fit together: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
- Dudeman112 4y ago>Follow the math where your instincts fail you I think that's his point. Your instincts fail you all the time when studying stuff smaller than atoms Most people don't have a gut feeling for overriding their instincts in favour of math. In fact, when you read some behavioural sciences you'll notice that overriding math with your instincts is the norm
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoThat's the purpose of the first 2 years of a Physics education. Getting the students to the point where their understanding of the math informs their intuition, rather than the other way around. Somewhere in the second year you do some experiments that demonstrate that in quantum and relativity, their intuitions are wrong and cannot be trusted, and then you dive into the good stuff.
- lmm 4y agoQM is fine, straightforward even. A bunch of philosophers (and Feynmann) try to make it sound harder and weirder than it is.
- Avamander 4y agoBiology does have quite a few phenomena that rely on quantum effects. I would be careful of calling something that's just a subset harder than the whole larger set.