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If you strip the context from this interesting article, you are also left with an interesting point. That is: there is value in different perspectives and appr
by gumby 3y ago
If you strip the context from this interesting article, you are also left with an interesting point. That is: there is value in different perspectives and approaches to a problem, yet the more different the perspective the harder it is to explain to others.
QM had to move forward as a slow-rolling wave for this reason (probably I thought of this case due to the horrifying example chosen by the author), while special and general relativity did not require that (instead GM was simply extremely hard to understand :-).
But the example I find most interesting is Newton introducing* calculus to England in order to address bugs in celestial mechanics and prove that the orbits were elliptical.