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Small counterpoint to your analogy, as someone who studied astrophysics: I actually did have a requirement to understand general relativity! Deriving all of it
by rznicolet 3mo ago
Small counterpoint to your analogy, as someone who studied astrophysics: I actually did have a requirement to understand general relativity! Deriving all of it independently from scratch wasn't something we did, but there _were_ derivations involved. And it was definitely worth working through -- it _is_ a good tool for understanding. (I've long since left the field, but I don't regret the work I did.)
- spongebobstoes 3mo agothat's exactly what I'm saying. understanding is good you didn't re-invent it, you learned it from a teacher and then practiced until you understood it to the required degree
- Jtarii 3mo agoWhat you cannot build you do not understand. If you can't derive a result in mathematics or physics from first principles you fundamentally do not understand it.