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[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

Quantum physics doesn't make sense until you just let the math take you to the results and stop worrying about your intuition. You have to absolutely trust the math and work through the results as many times as you need to for them to make mathematical sense in spite of your intuition. Further, have some grace with yourself. It took us 7,000 years from the dawn of civilization to get to Aristotle, 2000 years to get from Aristotle to Newton, and 218 years to get from Newton to Einstein. In that time a lot of progress has been made to our understanding of physics, and a lot of the confusion about quantum physics is due to flawed understandings of the people who created it. Spin was literally thought to be rotational motion of the particle in the of

[-] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

I think you fell asleep or something, your last sentence may have disappeared.

[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

That is exactly what happened lol

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I love Lemmy lol

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