It's hard to explain quantum mechanics when you don't understand them.
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It's hard to explain quantum mechanics even when you understand them.
It's a superposition of knowledge and ignorance.
The more you know the less you know
Congratulations, you’ve successfully explained quantum mechanics.
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.
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Sometimes I get the sense that I have a clear picture of quantum mechanics. But when I look closer, it gets all blurry.
The more you know of one thing the less you know of the other*
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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
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I understand them! They perform oil changes on the quantum
Thats the joke!
No one understands quantum mechanics
You both understand and don't understand quantum mechanics at the same time... It's that simple, that is until such a point at which becomes known as to whether or not you understand or don't understand quantum physics and then some kind of quantum tunnel collapses?
No habla English
The waves of this comment collapsed into photons entering my eyes showing me a joke about superposition once I observed it.
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That was the point, right?
It's hard to explain jokes when you don't understand them.
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
Both quotes attributed to Richard Feynman.
I can do (some of) the maths, but I definitely can't explain why any of it is like that, or how it works.
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Cropped so I get the authentic glaucoma experience.
My grandfather didn't die in Korea so that people could fight online like this.
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I’ve read this like ten times and I think the joke might be that quantum mechanics are difficult to explain to everyone, of which women are obviously a subset. But maybe I’m doling out too much credit lol
The joke is that quantum mechanics are difficult to understand, so the commenter doubts their ability to properly explain it (to women). The replier assumed it was a dig at women's intelligence, not a reflection of the original commenter's intelligence and ability to explain.
I.e. a stupid person would have difficulty explaining anything to women.
To be fair, the original question did not clearly state it needed to be easy to explain to men. The only requirement was to be difficult to explain to women. So, technically, this answers the question as written.
And we all know that technically correct is the best kind of correct.
No thats definitely the joke.
Redditor failed the litmus test for misandrists
This is peak my phone is fighting for its life energy 😂
I pretty sure magic is involved
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