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There was this other thread on /pol/ today about how the people who hate me jumped at the chance to believe that I am so awful at my chosen profession that I could not even rise to the level of the second worst professional practitioner of Earth Indeed, that leaves a buffer for me to be even worse and still succeed, and what these people who hate me were happy to believe without even one year of careful study was that I am so terrible at my chosen profession, I could not even be the absolute worst professional physicist on Earth. Someone is that person, and he is clearly much better at physics in the minds of those who hate me than I am. In light of this /pol/ thread, I want to post this older /sci/ thread where Sarbina "The Next Einstein" Pasterski showed that she does not understand that quantum mechanics is a theory of states, not particles. I think know-nothing undergraduates must be cured of this most stereotypical ignorance regarding QM 1000 times a year globally in first semester Intro to QM classes. Having to stop thinking about classical particles and starting to think about quantum states instead is literally the first mental hurdle one has to jump over on the road to learning QM. This thread (pic) shows that Sarbina was on the stupid side of that hurdle when she started arguing with me last year.
Now, Sarbina is clearly a substandard physicist because she is a woman and her whole career is built around her "skronk wyman" media presence, but there are *tons* of people who are not very good at physics working as physicists. A lot of people get PhDs because they have high opinions of their intellects. Some of those people are wrong or deluded. Since getting a job is all about social networking if you're not in the 0.001% of physicists who actually did anything, Sarbina is not the only one like her. She may be the only one you'd see demonstrate such a profound ignorance of the most basic elements of QM, however.
