Are you being polite
and saying their minds don't work the right way, or saying they're stupid?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:51, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

No, it's totally about the way minds work.
There's nothing stupid about not having a science mind. In fact, almost the opposite - I'd argue skills in other areas, languages etc are harder to achieve. If you can "do" high level maths and science it's rarely necessary to put much effort in, for a start.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:55, Reply)

except aren't languages
and maths in the same area of the brain and use some of the same skills?

Since I stopped all science past GCSE and only did AS maths I'm no expert. I understand that's nowhere near the level being talked about, but it really wasn't very hard
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:57, Reply)

Don't think so
no. languages rely on memory and rules. being really, properly good at maths is the ultimate, real "thinking outside the box". All bets are off, all rules are off, it's only about how your mind works on problems.

I should point out I'm not, by those standards, good at maths at all. But I collaborate with people that are, and they are scary.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:04, Reply)

I get what he means
I'm not particularly stupid (shut up Chompy) but the more in depth science gets the less I understand it. I just can't comprehend it. I know how it should work and I get what it means when I read about it, but I can't comprehend it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:57, Reply)

dimensions are the classic.
maths operates in an infinite number of dimensions and we can only visualise three. So unless you can switch off from visualising in three dimensions you're basically fucked.

It doesn't help when people go "oh, but time is the fourth dimension" ...it is and it isn't. Not it any way that we normally associate with time.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:01, Reply)

I think people can grasp bits
but not all of it. I was pretty interested in the whole concept of dimensions a while back and it never really blew my mind in the way some scientific concepts did
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:07, Reply)

physics and maths interpretations of dimensions are different, too.
only the same, as well. It's quite fucked up.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:11, Reply)