117 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 20 Feb \ on: The Mysterious Anti-Gravity Research of the 1950s aliens_and_UFOs
I wish I had a better grasp of physics at this level so I could determine what is and isn't coherent. Without my sophomoric understanding of physics, I'd probably regard most physics concepts as unapproachable, but QM feels especially unapproachable. It feels an awful lot like modern journalism generally. Much of it lacks simple verifiability and its incredibly opaque.
but QM feels especially unapproachable
Definitely. This is an excerpt from the Portal Wiki that Eric Weinstein and some of his followers have put together:
The knowledge of fundamental physics and the mathematics necessary to perform and understand it are known to few, maybe some tens of thousands of people at most, and commitment to reach those levels entails almost a decade of graduate and post-graduate study. Yet what if it was all much easier and much harder to understand? What if the necessary knowledge was finite and more rapidly attainable to a broader population than those select few? What if there was a way to identify and abstract the most basic physical structures, a list of all the tools to build and operate on those structures, and a user's guide to describe how to use those tools?
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