Re:Richard Feynman: Magnets and Why Questions [video]
by Jach on Sunday March 20, 2011 @03:08AM
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Bringing ICP into a Feynman topic, I never imagined...
> I don't know how many physics or calculus classes ICP has taken, but let's assume the lyricist has a PhD in Physics. It's not an unreasonable assumption, to presume knowledge rather than ignorance.
Why would you assume something so ridiculous as a PhD in Physics when a short trip to Google can give you a good basis for inferring their education, especially when your main argument (ignorant people criticize people for assumed ignorance) doesn't rely on their intelligence, but the intelligence of the critics. (You're assuming ignorance in the critics just after you assume knowledge in the band! Why can't everyone who criticizes the song have a PhD in physics?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_E._Clark - "After graduating from high school, Clark took classes on music production at the Recording Institute in Eastpointe, Michigan, and soon got a job at the The Disc Ltd."
The other guy's page doesn't say, but one can infer a similar status. Also: "Bruce, along with his band mate Joseph Utsler, has had numerous run-ins with the law, having been arrested multiple times starting at the age of seventeen."
For myself, I find the lyrics of ICP's song head-shakingly depressing. Their anti-science line that others cite reminds me of a strawman:
"Quantum physics is all probabilities?"
"Well, you have a vector field of complex numbers..."
"Complex number?"
"Real number with an imaginary component."
"Imaginary? lol"
"Anyway, you take the squared modulus of a complex number and get something that looks like a probability out of it."
"SHUT UP TOO COMPLICATED IT'S MAGIC".
I won't go so far to say I fully understand Maxwell's equations; I can write them down and do stuff with them and prove correspondences with Coulomb's Law, Gauss' Law, and the electrostatic simplifications, but I still need a couple more months of digestion before I understand them.
> I don't know how many physics or calculus classes ICP has taken, but let's assume the lyricist has a PhD in Physics. It's not an unreasonable assumption, to presume knowledge rather than ignorance.
Why would you assume something so ridiculous as a PhD in Physics when a short trip to Google can give you a good basis for inferring their education, especially when your main argument (ignorant people criticize people for assumed ignorance) doesn't rely on their intelligence, but the intelligence of the critics. (You're assuming ignorance in the critics just after you assume knowledge in the band! Why can't everyone who criticizes the song have a PhD in physics?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_E._Clark - "After graduating from high school, Clark took classes on music production at the Recording Institute in Eastpointe, Michigan, and soon got a job at the The Disc Ltd."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bruce#Early_life - "Bruce dropped out of school in ninth grade, and moved in with his friend, Rudy, in River Rouge."
The other guy's page doesn't say, but one can infer a similar status. Also: "Bruce, along with his band mate Joseph Utsler, has had numerous run-ins with the law, having been arrested multiple times starting at the age of seventeen."
For myself, I find the lyrics of ICP's song head-shakingly depressing. Their anti-science line that others cite reminds me of a strawman:
"Quantum physics is all probabilities?" "Well, you have a vector field of complex numbers..." "Complex number?" "Real number with an imaginary component." "Imaginary? lol" "Anyway, you take the squared modulus of a complex number and get something that looks like a probability out of it." "SHUT UP TOO COMPLICATED IT'S MAGIC".
I won't go so far to say I fully understand Maxwell's equations; I can write them down and do stuff with them and prove correspondences with Coulomb's Law, Gauss' Law, and the electrostatic simplifications, but I still need a couple more months of digestion before I understand them.