What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)

Wow, I love this. What a thoughtful, empathetic project. This passage really stuck out to me-- "A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particles ‘popping’ in and out of existence. Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors. My clients read way too much into pictures, measuring every angle, scrutinising every colour, counting every dash. Illustrators should be more…

Some of these folks could probably benefit from reading a book that I just bought: The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need To Know To Start Doing Physics. https://www.amazon.com/Theoretical-Minimum-Start-Doing-Physi... It's a cool book... written to be relatively accessible, but is actually grounded in the real principles and math used in physics. As somebody who considers himself an autodidact of sorts (in that I'm as much self-taught as formally educated), but who has some awareness of "what I don't know" (and…

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Beautiful. I'm glad to have read this.