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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 1594218" data-attributes="member: 10913">[HIJACK CONTINUES...]I was not aware of this anecdote. Nice  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The original post referred to the General theory of relativity, however, which I do not believe follows from playing with Maxwell's equations. And IIRC its guiding principle (general covariance) was shown to be mathematically meaningless, which led to a series of alternate formulations (I personally was taught it under the premise of coordinate choice invariance). As such it can be argued that even Einstein himself didn't understand it...At any case I think the general principle that some ideas are hard to get is quite true. BTW, IIRC the core of SR equations were, actually, discovered prior to Einstein; it is just that Einstein gave them along with a physical interpertation. This was his genius.I am sure you find it this way, but this has not been my experience. While the essence of the mathemathical theory can be ascertained quickly (if you know the maths), understanding the physical consequences (and hence the idea in full) can take some time. Why, even understanding the physics (i.e. getting a physical intuition) of Newtonian mechanics takes a lot of time, although the math is very straightforward.There is really: a choice of one of several bets (probability distributions) which share some basic events, so that the shared basic events are given the same probability in every possible context (each bet consists a single context). IIRC, this will result in a quantum probability density (coupled to the standard Beysian contraints on assigning probabilities, of course).Of course, this does not make QM any easier.I must admit I find this semi-platonic approach interesting, but I guess I souldn't pursue this.</blockquote>

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