Feynman?
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Replying to @CassidyGavin @graceelavery
His lectures on physics are highly recommended. Simple to understand. Straightforward. https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html
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Feynman's reputation for this is notable because it is rare There are many people just as smart as Feynman when it comes to science who are not as good at writing in a casual breezy tone as he was, and therefore are not as famous
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This I agree with. It takes special skill to write like that, which is why they are famous. But the number of times I've been told to "go read Butler you bigot!" is way too high, indicating that the best minds of this field are bad at communicating with the masses. Bit ironic
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So don't read her, that's fine Just don't fucking pop off about her being an idiot because you don't get it
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What you're saying is it is somehow easier to explain quantum physics than it is to explain inner workings of society to people? Get outta here.
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I don't think it actually is particularly easy to explain quantum physics, which is why the vast majority of lay people who think they understand it don't I don't even mean in the sense that the explanation they got was non-rigorous, I mean they remember the explanation wrong
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Like, God bless Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, etc for trying I guess but it's not easy to explain and even if you use small words people fuck it up I don't think I understand it all that well myself but I understand enough to know what they don't understand
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Like ALL THE TIME I hear people repeat stuff like "Einstein thought you can't go past the speed of light, but quantum physics says you can, you can use entanglement to send messages FTL" Which is 100% completely wrong, but is the basis of whole "hard" SF settings
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Anyway Even if you were right about that, why the fuck would that be weird Of course the hardest thing for human beings to talk about is ourselves We're trying to talk about the process of talking, understand the process of understanding
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It's a logical paradox, trying to turn your eyes all the way around so they can see themselves, like a snake eating its own tail The difficulty of true introspection has been discussed for thousands of years
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One specific reason that some humanities scholars give for the use of jargon, which you are free to disagree with but is hard to dismiss out of hand, is that it's *necessary* to use difficult, big words to get you to actually *think* about what is being said
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That the very danger of trying to translate ideas into "plain speech" is when you're talking about something emotionally fraught that you already have many deep kneejerk assumptions about, you'll just translate it into what you already want to hear
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