>>11117968To add to what has already been stated in this thread, a small anecdote:
I was at the bar with colleagues (grad student here) once and there were some dudes next to us who were talking about quantum physics. Clearly only had a "pop sci" understanding. One of my more sociable peers decided to join in on their conversation, and the rest of us were partially dragged in because of that. No one mentioned that we were physics phd students until much later into the discussion. Anyway, this was a while ago and I got fairly buzzed so I don't remember the details, but it went as you might imagine:
>dude quantum physics means our consciousness decides what the universe is gonna do!>I heard quantum entanglement is linked to how we form relationships with others>quantum mechanics confirms the philosophical ideas of "u cant know nuthin"And so on. I stayed out of it as much as possible, for various reasons, but mainly because there was so much misinformation that they had already ingrained into their minds that it would take multiple days just to get them to "unlearn" what pop sci taught them, let alone trying to explain what's actually going on.
And that's pretty much my problem with pop sci. It's active damaging, because in order to learn the stuff properly later down the line (if you're the 0.1% that actually cares enough), you have to forget everything you were told.
