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Re:Eldar Black Holes by whatshisface on Saturday February 24, 2018 @10:53AM (#16453754)
The only well-traveled path to understanding physics starts at "highschooler with a lot of confidence in their math skills," and it takes four years minimum. Anything else is going to be a long shot, just by virtue of the fact that nobody's doing it (for the most part).

Nobody has ever discovered a way to truthfully map physics concepts into English sentences that you can understand without having to have explored the entire definition tree.

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Re:Eldar Black Holes by shullbitt0r on Sunday February 25, 2018 @03:25PM (#16460977)
Can we talk about how real the perceived mismatch between other "social", "humanitarian" sciences and the "natural" sciences is?
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Re:Eldar Black Holes by dictum on Saturday February 24, 2018 @10:59AM (#16453777)
Concurrently, every attempt to map physics concepts into English is met by a barrage of "well, actually".
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Re:Eldar Black Holes by whatshisface on Saturday February 24, 2018 @01:13PM (#16454472)
That's because the mappings always fail - not so much a concurrent thing as a consequence. (For comparison, you can say everything about Roman troop organization in English, because that's native to how the information exists in the first place. You won't get any "well, actually" about the size of a legion, because it involves words and concepts that everyone already knows.)
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