If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it

Re:If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t... by moomin on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:35PM (#14564585)

Listening to Feynman talk about magnetism fails to answer that question definitively one way or the other.

But seriously, if you can't explain what a complex-valued "probability" is to a layman, apparently you don't understand quantum mechanics?

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Re:If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t... by freddref on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:39PM (#14564611)

It might have been hubris at the time he got the prize, but later he felt different about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUcmKDaklY

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Re:If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t... by kornish on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:31PM (#14565652)

Another video which touches more on the same point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkv0KCR3Yiw

(Highly recommend the whole Feynman series, which is excerpted from an interview video called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, which is also spectacular)

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Re:If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t... by fnordfnordfnord on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:50PM (#14564699)

I assume this is the bit of video you're referring to?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

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Re:If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t... by moomin on Saturday June 17, 2017 @03:49AM (#14574789)

That's the one :)

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