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Lol dummy the photon is an irreducible representation in the SU(2)×U(1) symmetry group when you rotate it by about 30°. Hope I cleared that all up. Don't ask a

Lol dummy the photon is an irreducible representation in the SU(2)×U(1) symmetry group when you rotate it by about 30°. Hope I cleared that all up. Don't ask any follow up questions.

parasti 3y ago
This, to me, describes most Wikipedia articles.
- wjessup 3y ago
  You forgot jumping right into the derivation first without any context of why it matters.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  What else could it possibly be? 90% of particle and high energy and quantum physics just doesn't have a real meaning beyond the extremely rigorous math. This isn't classical physics where you can talk about pendulums to twelve year olds, because physics in those domains simply works in more complicated manners. The tools we needed to develop to query that domain simply require more advanced math. IMO, this desire to "simplify" something that cannot really be simplified is why so much pop sci around quantum stuff is just nonsense. Even normal words mean entirely different things in the realm of quantum physics. The layman doesn't understand what quantum computing does because the layman doesn't even have a knowledge of calculus, and all the intuition about the behavior of mathematical systems that comes with it, let alone the kind of linear algebra, discrete math, and higher level math like fields. People need to stop pretending that the most advanced mathematical constructs humankind has conceived, standing on ten thousand years of the smartest minds we have ever birthed, is something that John Q Public can expect to understand. It's no different than me being unable to discuss influences on Picaso's work because I have never taken an art history class. Sure, I could parrot some dumbed down thought someone else feeds me, but I emphatically do not have the context and surrounding knowledge to extract any meaning from that.

Lol dummy the photon is an irreducible representation in the SU(2)×U(1) symmetry group when you rotate it by about 30°. Hope I cleared that all up. Don't ask any follow up questions.

parasti 3y ago

This, to me, describes most Wikipedia articles.

wjessup 3y ago
You forgot jumping right into the derivation first without any context of why it matters.
mrguyorama 3y ago
What else could it possibly be? 90% of particle and high energy and quantum physics just doesn't have a real meaning beyond the extremely rigorous math. This isn't classical physics where you can talk about pendulums to twelve year olds, because physics in those domains simply works in more complicated manners. The tools we needed to develop to query that domain simply require more advanced math. IMO, this desire to "simplify" something that cannot really be simplified is why so much pop sci around quantum stuff is just nonsense. Even normal words mean entirely different things in the realm of quantum physics. The layman doesn't understand what quantum computing does because the layman doesn't even have a knowledge of calculus, and all the intuition about the behavior of mathematical systems that comes with it, let alone the kind of linear algebra, discrete math, and higher level math like fields. People need to stop pretending that the most advanced mathematical constructs humankind has conceived, standing on ten thousand years of the smartest minds we have ever birthed, is something that John Q Public can expect to understand. It's no different than me being unable to discuss influences on Picaso's work because I have never taken an art history class. Sure, I could parrot some dumbed down thought someone else feeds me, but I emphatically do not have the context and surrounding knowledge to extract any meaning from that.