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> When I meet people who immediately use hyper-specific jargon with strangers,

That is 90% of the professors I asked questions to. If they go full jargon and don't want to explain any of it, they don't want you near them ( or they want you to improve before even having a conversation ).





That just makes them awful professors. They should stick to WWFD (what would Feynman do!)

> what would Feynman do!

The counter-camp is "What would Landau and Lifshitz do?" :-)

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For those who are out of the loop:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics

"The presentation of material is advanced and typically considered suitable for graduate-level study."




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