(January 2, 2014 at 2:24 pm)houseofcantor Wrote: What!? The electron is a lepton. Bosons are made up of quarks. Oh my Gwynnies...

I'm currently going through "Quantum Physics for Poets" and I feel like Paul Dirac captured my current mindset well when he said: "The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible."
Oftentimes when reading this book I have felt like a zombie staring at words on a paper, with no comprehension for the terms, their meaning, and the math involved. I feel like I have the IQ of a snail.
hock:So please forgive me?



