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It simply can't be done. It's always possible in theory but never in practice. Or at least certainly not in this special snowflake case.

Until someone bucks the trend and does it.

But for that you need someone with actual intelligence and empathy; a Feynman of that sphere so to speak.

In every gatekeeper community this is the order of things until someone finally destroys the gates to the knowledge and the monopoly of the priesthood. Until then, it's basically "blame the victim" for their own lack of understanding (e.g. "people listen very little", "people are more skeptical of others", "they try to poke holes in your explanations", "They'll repeat whatever objections they've seen or heard somewhere", etc).




Well, I don't disagree with you, but also all of these things you list in the parentheses are just how humans generally behave. They are real obstacles.

And regardless of where we place the blame, at the end of the day:

> In life, there are a lot of obvious things that are very difficult to teach.


> a Feynman of that sphere so to speak

Hopefully people who read QED don't go around thinking that they know all they need to know to make an informed judgement about lagrangian QM.




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