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    1. Sexy Banana Costume‏ @literalbanana Jun 28

      What’s the most impressive thing you’re ignorant about?

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      masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28
      Replying to @literalbanana

      I got an A in engineering department E&M but to this day I don't understand how circuits or optics or magnets work

      8:16 PM - 28 Jun 2018
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        2. Sexy Banana Costume‏ @literalbanana Jun 28
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          ok that’s damn impressive [if author hadn’t gotten a B in electronics lab at MIT knowing sod all about electronics]

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        3. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity Jun 28
          Replying to @literalbanana @eigenrobot

          I literally did not know how magnets work until I was a postdoc in physics. Surprisingly few people who could/should know the answer to this question actually stop to think about it.

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        4.  👻 ectogène  👻‏ @polytrophic Jun 28
          Replying to @gravity_levity @literalbanana @eigenrobot

          I've always enjoyed this interview, but not because it teaches you why magnets work:https://youtu.be/MO0r930Sn_8 

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        5. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity Jun 28
          Replying to @polytrophic @literalbanana @eigenrobot

          I think this says more (negatively) about me than him, but I've always felt like this was a Feynman cop-out.

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        6. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity Jun 28
          Replying to @gravity_levity @polytrophic and

          I want to believe that a sufficiently great teacher can make me understand anything in whatever terms I demand to understand it.

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        7.  👻 ectogène  👻‏ @polytrophic Jun 28
          Replying to @gravity_levity @literalbanana @eigenrobot

          I think it was a cop-out too, in a way. Had he let the interviewer ask 'how' instead of why, the answer would have been much more straight forward.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        8.  👻 ectogène  👻‏ @polytrophic Jun 28
          Replying to @polytrophic @gravity_levity and

          I can't argue with your second statement, but I imagine it more difficult and time consuming for teachers to create good analogies when they've invested a lot of time building on established principals using domain jargon.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        9.  👻 ectogène  👻‏ @polytrophic Jun 28
          Replying to @polytrophic @gravity_levity and

          A pioneer of a given domain, however? They could do it like you expect.

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        2. Alan Cole‏Verified account @AlanMCole Jun 28
          Replying to @eigenrobot @literalbanana

          All that stuff is basically magic. "There's a 'charge!' It attracts things!" "Where does it come from?" "I dunno, it just... does." Newtonian physics is the only real physics, and everything else is fake physics made up by wizards.

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        3. Sometimes Softly‏ @SometimesSoftly Jun 28
          Replying to @AlanMCole @eigenrobot @literalbanana

          All the potentials act the same! A charge attracts an opposite charge just like the bottom of a hill "attracts" stuff rolling from the top if the hill-a magnet sticks to the side of your fridge just like you stick to the ground. Gravity is exactly as weird as all the other stuff!

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        4. masquerobot‏ @eigenrobot Jun 28
          Replying to @SometimesSoftly @AlanMCole @literalbanana

          Not entirely convinced I understand gravity either Although it seems easier Monistic fields vs dualistic fields

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Sexy Banana Costume‏ @literalbanana Jun 28
          Replying to @eigenrobot @SometimesSoftly @AlanMCole

          gravity is very much correlations rather than explanatory

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        6. Sometimes Softly‏ @SometimesSoftly Jun 28
          Replying to @literalbanana @eigenrobot @AlanMCole

          When you're explaining stuff you always end until saying that inanimate things "want" things. Ball wants to drop, bond wants to form. It's all animism.

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        7. Sexy Banana Costume‏ @literalbanana Jun 28
          Replying to @SometimesSoftly @eigenrobot @AlanMCole

          oh man it’s sooooo hard to not do this

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        8. Alan Cole‏Verified account @AlanMCole Jun 28
          Replying to @literalbanana @SometimesSoftly @eigenrobot

          That's because nothing is explained! (Unless you come to Jesus or w/e.) It's just, like, a bunch of things we observe that happen for no particular reason. And we hate that! Even atheists can't resist finding intentionality somewhere.

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        9. Sometimes Softly‏ @SometimesSoftly Jun 28
          Replying to @AlanMCole @literalbanana @eigenrobot

          Part of the problem is that we have big, slow minds and live big, slow lives and a lot of the important things are fast and/or small.

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        2. Utility Monster Girl‏ @Tipsycaek Jun 29
          Replying to @eigenrobot @literalbanana

          nobody actually knows how those work

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        3. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Jun 29
          Replying to @Tipsycaek @eigenrobot @literalbanana

          I didn’t do well in electronics class and now I explain to inventors how their own inventions actually work, the whole field is a huge sham.

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