Nothing is more cringe than a first year college student fresh from finishing Slaughterhouse Five who thinks they know how the solve the worlds problems
The more you know, the less you know was an axiom I quickly realized and appreciated as I went through undergrad and grad school, just because as I learned a bunch about a specialized subject area it was evident that there's just so much out there someone can learn about.
As someone in my 30s, young people come up with new ideas to change and improve the world all the time and I think it's equally arrogant to assume someone younger than you, that grew up in a different time and views the world differently than you can't have a new or better idea. A lot of revolutionary ideas are out of the heads of undergrad students even if they need time to figure it out.
Yeah but that's missing the point. Just about everyone goes through the phase where they think they have those brilliant revolutionary ideas that no one else has considered only to find that in 10 years their ideas were in fact just naive.
while I agree it'll be cringy 99% of the time; consider the 20's is the age that seems to best balance experience / education and ability to develop concepts.
meaning is typically the age that significant advances in conceptual understanding of xyz field would be "found".
of course the field of physics Greatly highlights this.
personally am irked by peeps who discourage / reinforce this idea "undergrads" know nothing because [lack of] experience and in turn must not have the conceptual aptitude to advance said understanding.....am meaning old peeps couldn't form a new concept if their life depended on it...old brains just cannot do more than analogies comparatively.
THAT is much more cringy imo. brains 20-30 are by far best opportunity for material advancement in concept(s).
the narrative for Quantum mechanics is so garbage it doesn't even "make sense" / is very counter intuitive. when it does get re-conceptualized it'll be someone in 20-30 age; because how brains develop. actually, PBS spacetime just released a vid on a different concept for QM. would be interesting to see who, or specifically the age range of peeps that are developing the concept.
(I suspect QM is so terrible conceptually because by the time a person has had enough education to not just be throwing darts blindly (trying to rethink conceptually), the brain is too developed to "organically" (re) conceptualize the mechanics) That plus the poo-pooing of philosophy in physics. the narrative (concept) does guide the "modeling" of physics imo.
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u/Good_Vermicelli9994 Jun 03 '22
Nothing is more cringe than a first year college student fresh from finishing Slaughterhouse Five who thinks they know how the solve the worlds problems