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diff --git a/source/blog/2015-08-14-laymen.md b/source/blog/2015-08-14-laymen.md index 15690e2f..e176370b 100644 --- a/source/blog/2015-08-14-laymen.md +++ b/source/blog/2015-08-14-laymen.md @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ title: "Laymen" date: 2015-08-14T18:32:13-07:00 date_display: August 14, 2015 ---- +... + I always cringe when I see laymen discussing physics in comments sections of news websites. A typical situation: one commentator put together a sentence with all physics-sounding (kind of) terms he's ever heard of; the next commentator "agrees" with the previous one, adding something that sounds more reasonable (to folks who've never taken high school physics) but unfortunately violates the first law of thermodynamics; then yet another guy comes along and corrects both of the above in a pedagogic tone, with an argument that violates the second law of thermodymics... I cringe even more when laymen discuss mathematics, but that's much rarer compared to physics. |