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The author probably has no experience with modern physics education. He probably met somebody who learned these things 50 years ago and keeps repeating this unf
by coliveira 12y ago
The author probably has no experience with modern physics education. He probably met somebody who learned these things 50 years ago and keeps repeating this unfounded notion.
- wetmore 12y agoScott Aaronson teaches at MIT... I'm sure he has some experience with modern physics education.
- coliveira 12y agoHe teaches CS, not Physics. What they are teaching in the CS department has nothing to do with what physicists learn.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> What they are teaching in the CS department has nothing to do with what physicists learn. This line of thinking is a huge problem in science and the reason Scott has to write articles like the one discussed. "Yeah, so those computer guys are so full of themselves that they dare say they know something about how the universe works". Well, the thing is, they actually do.
- mef51 12y agoI'm a physics undergrad: his notion is correct :P