Old 02-26-14 | 03:29 PM
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Enthalpic
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Originally Posted by gwchem
As a PChemist, whose graduate degree essentially revolved around measuring and modelling how molecules behavior is governed by those equations, I find PChem is actually quite conceptual. It was very easy to think I understood the basis of Quantum Mechanics. Until I had to teach it to someone. My advisors stressed that we never truly understood something until we could explain it well.
"You know, I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we really don't understand it."

"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics"

- Feynman
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