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>I strongly believe there is nothing I can't learn, eventually. Well that's the crux isn't it? If some prodigy can learn QFT before the age of 13 they have a l
by adamsmith143 4y ago
>I strongly believe there is nothing I can't learn, eventually.
Well that's the crux isn't it? If some prodigy can learn QFT before the age of 13 they have a lifetime to go beyond those concepts. But if it takes you 50 years to learn you don't have enough time to go beyond that. That's a fundamental piece of intelligence, the speed you can lean at.
- toss1 4y agoWhich is why it is said that, if we do it right, we "stand on the shoulders of giants". E.g., we don't each need to reinvent calculus, Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz did that already... [Edit typo: of/if]
- SunghoYahng 4y agoAnyone who takes 50 years to learn QFT exists only in the imagination. Real people either learn QFT in a reasonable amount of time, or they don't understand it at all.