Re: understand understanding, simple explanations, etc.

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>]

> The references to quantum mechanics and displacement currents in a
> discussion which started with an appeal as to how to explain something to
> 11 year olds astounds me.

Then your strategy is simple. You don't try to explain a physical
concept to someone unready to appreciate the explanation. That
means you cannot explain concepts that require mathematics for
their explanation to mathematically unprepared people. Now you
understand the ultimate fulitlity of much of what is misrepresented
as "conceptual physics".

QED

Leigh