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Natural language can conjure the visual imagination of intuition, but it is less specific than images themselves. Einstein reportedly ran thought experiments i
by deepnet 3y ago
Natural language can conjure the visual imagination of intuition, but it is less specific than images themselves.
Einstein reportedly ran thought experiments in his imagination.
His intuition was visual and dynamic.
That is images that change - animations.
A natural language description of relativity is one step removed from the moving images of Einstein's intuition.
Fields are not grounded in everyday experience but most modern movie-goers are happy with rapid and grand changes of scale and thanks to wizard and superhero movies there exists a sophisticated visual grammar of rapidly propagating fields, strange paradoxes and simultanous weakly interacting realities.
Many of the concepts of quantum field theory can be grasped by a wide audience when presented as animations.
- DrDeWitt 3y agoYou are probably right that natural language is not synonymous to a physical intuition. However, I believe that the way quantum theories are taught or even understood are in a much less intuitive manner than GR. Something that is evident by the number of different interpretations of quantum mechanics