Let`s face facts.How many theories developed in the Twentieth Century can you honestly say you understand?

Here`s a few of the weirder ones.


Wave-particle duality(1905) Those little ever moving particles we can`t see are supposedly both particles and waves.It just depends on what colour shirt you`re wearing.


E=mc2 (1905) Energy = mass * speed of light^2. Einsteins famous equation. But what does it mean-Have mathematicians gone insane?We`ve got things getting heavier as they move faster,time slowing down and enough other weird effects to make a whole sci fi series.


Heisenberg uncertainty principle (1927) dX*dP >= h/(2*pi). The uncertainty in the position multiplied by the uncertainty in the momentum of a tiny particle is greater than or equal to Plancks constant divided by 2*pi.Supposedly when we try to measure the position of something small like an electron the act of measuring affects the electron,making certainty of its position and momentum impossible.Sounds clever.But its the scientists cop out clause for so many things.


Gaussian Spheres. (19th century) Another mathematical abstraction apparently originated to make it harder to understand the behaviour of electricity,and the nature of electric fields around charged particles. Electric 'flux' and lots of lovely integration muddy the waters even more.


It hard to believe that these theories haven`t been created merely to confuse anyone who`s remotely interested in physics.

Let`s attack wave-particle duality,as an example and consider it from an

a/Mathematicians view.

b/Common sense view.

Let`s start.