There’s an old joke about quantum mechanics professors starting their first lecture with something along the lines of “right now, some of you probably understand quantum mechanics. By the end of the semester, if I did my job right, none of us will understand it.”
It’s hard to explain quantum mechanics even when you understand them.
I thought that was like its thing. It doesn’t really make sense.
There’s an old joke about quantum mechanics professors starting their first lecture with something along the lines of “right now, some of you probably understand quantum mechanics. By the end of the semester, if I did my job right, none of us will understand it.”
If they’re lucky they might understand kubernetes though.
Or as the professionals call it, k8s
Iirc, it’s a youtube video of an actual class
It’s a superposition of knowledge and ignorance.
The more you know the less you know
Sometimes I get the sense that I have a clear picture of quantum mechanics. But when I look closer, it gets all blurry.
This is true about everything though.
The more you know of one thing the less you know of the other*
This isn’t even a joke, it’s literally true in quantum mechanics.
Thank you for explaining the joke, I now know less.
You know nothing, but you know precisely about what you know nothing.
Only before you check, though.
Cue the PhD comic about depth of knowledge vs breadth of knowledge.
Congratulations, you’ve successfully explained quantum mechanics.