What is the hardest thing for you to wrap your brain around

Chi Meson

I'm all set with entropy; it's enthalpy that I still don't quite get (beyond it's definition, and how to calculate the change thereof).

Enthalpy isn't taught in basic physics, so I haven't had the professional requirement of coming up with a dozen analogies to explain it.

OmCheeto

I remember Enthalpy! It was a term they used when teaching us how nuclear reactor systems worked.

But being somewhat old, and mentally degenerating at a very rapid pace, anything I learned before yesterday is generally hard for me to wrap my brain around.

Gomar

Had the meteor not struck planet Earth when the dinos walked all over killing them all, then they would still be around. Ifcourse, had that same meteor struck just 500 years ago, I would not be writing this now.

Yayfordoritos

The hardest thing for me to wrap my head around is how people can still think the universe was created in 6 days, and that a virgin got pregnant by an immaculate conception.

OmCheeto

A "day" can be defined other than a time period of 24 hours. Perhaps the biblical creation day is 2 billion years long.

And we impregnate people like that all the time where I work. Never asked them if they were virgins of course. It's a bit of a personal question.


Science explains everything.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explained the science of Santa Claus the other day on NPR. He is a freakin' genius.


ps. Magnets! Someone explain magnets to me!

Whovian

Number Theory. Or Human stupidity. I'd say both are equally hard for me to wrap my head around.

ahaanomegas

The hardest thing for my to wrap my brain around is how people can confuse two different subjects like Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics or Astrology and Quantum Physics? Every subject is wonderful in its own way and should be dealt with differently. Yes, there is no border between subjects and they can be intermingled but not to the extent that you make a subject lose its integrity.

Understanding people is hard. Well, understanding the universe is hard.

1MileCrash

I think it's Graham's number for me.

Drakkith

I can't understand why my bank account is constantly empty...I think QCD may have something to do with it.

PNGeng

How humans survived in the wild.

Jow

Anything greater than or equal to Graham's number. (Alright, not technically a physics thing).
The most difficult, actual thing, for me to wrap my brain around: every single thing in Quantum Mechanics :)

lisab

Graham crackers.

Drakkith

I thought you put white/grey squishy things BETWEEN the crackers??

nitsuj

This is it for me too.

NWH

What came first, the chicken or the egg? It's an analogy that can be applied to almost any practical situation and asks the very question of existence.

NemoReally

Egg? (chicken came from egg, but what laid egg wasn't necessarily chicken - probably tasted as good, though ... I find the distinction question interesting in cases like this; the thing in the farmyard is "clearly" a chicken and its wayback ancestor clearly isn't (it probably had teeth and a long bony tail) - where along the evolutionary trail does a chicken become a chicken and not a chickosaurus?)

Drakkith

I've never found it to be all that applicable. Or deep.