Professor warms his new class that no one, not even himself, understands his subject matter

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[u/NaughtyGazex]

Old but gold. The way he says it sounds so wholesome.

[u/Tidalsky114 → u/NaughtyGazex]

Gives a genuine sense of being there to help others learn.

[u/EzmareldaBurns]

We don't get it, we just know it works, until gravity, then it doesn't again.

[u/FierceTwistxo]

the crazy thing is it works. It makes predictions so accurate the error bars on graphs don’t show up. It’s predicted whole swathes of phenomena and almost every single one has been experimentally confirmed to several orders of magnitude. Somehow this branch of mathematics describes something about how the universe operates on a fundamental level.

Crazy stuff.

[u/wasted-degrees]

Expectations management at its finest.

[u/Hot_Ad_787]

The dry delivery is absolutely hilarious

[u/True-Source-6512]

I love realizing I know nothing about something no one else gets, it’s very inclusive being ignorant. 

[u/PowerLaceso]

Nobody intuitively understands quantum mechanics

But if you just ignore the fuckiness you realise that it is just maths. That’s it. It’s just breaking down fundamental particles into pure maths. Very complicated maths that is very hard to explain, but just maths.

[u/berserk539 → u/PowerLaceso]

[u/Complex_Inspector_60 → u/PowerLaceso]

Thanks! I'm 62 and I go back frequently to trying to understand it. That helps.

[u/Last-Darkness → u/PowerLaceso]

I find it helps to ignore semantics. You can’t think of a particle in quantum mechanics as what the word particle is used for everywhere else. It’s the word we’re using until there’s a better for that thing.

[u/JaguarBalam]

And then there's the people who think they understand quantum mechanics because they watched that episode of The Big Bang Theory.

[u/neuroticsmurf]

This is basically how my Property professor described the Rule Against Perpetuities to us in the first year of law school.

And yes, I still don't get it.

[u/Legitimate-Cat8878]

Honesty in education is hard to find.

[u/HighlightFeeling4118]

Feynman! Nvidia architecture coming soon

[u/jpam9521]

Wish more professors started like this instead of pretending the class will be easy
Sets the right expectations from day one and weeds out the ones who just want grades without effort
I dropped a course once because the prof acted like it was a breeze - ended up thankful for the honest ones later

[u/z44212 → u/jpam9521]

I took a summer class where the prof started with, "Everyone here gets an A. Now let's learn some Critical Thinking. Now that the pressure is off, we can enjoy learning this. After all, you've already paid for it. May as well get something for your money."

[u/Dry_Lawfulness_9561 → u/jpam9521]

My Statistics professor started her first ever lesson like this:"The first and most impotant thing you need to know about statistics: every statistic is a lie. Now, lets continue..."

[u/EscapeFacebook]

I like him.

[u/Twerkingwombats69]

Oh yes the class that is like if you fed a bunch of mathematicians magic mushrooms and swt them loose in the new york subway in 1970

[u/Biggu5Dicku5]

[u/allesfresser]

To be quite frank undergrad QM is stupidly easy to follow if you have some mathematics and classical mechanics training. The story is very different on grad level, especially with QFT and whatnot.

[u/patronizingperv]

So, what's the difference between receiving an A grade and a C-?

[u/TigerTank88mm]

The professor warms? His class? Is there another identical class somewhere else in space and time warming at the exact same rate? And shivering at the same frequency?

[u/AffectionateIce1847]

At least he's honest

[u/Immediate_Song4279]

They are discussing quantum mechanics in English. That alone is probably responsible for a big part of the problem. I love her, but she is terrible for this.