Juggalos don't seem to appreciate scientists...

[Doktor Howl]

I was chatting with one earlier today who didn't seem to understand how time zones work.

OK, this I have to hear.

IT'S 2 AM HERE BUT IT'S 7 WHERE YOU AT, IT'S MOTHAFUCKIN MAGIC

I should have saved it... that's essentially how it went.  "WHOA, it's 9 where you are??? WHOA... it's like, 11 here!"

There is only one time, and that is Tucson's time.  It is currently 8:16 AM.  If your area has a different time, then your area is all fucked up.  In this one thing, the Juggalos are correct.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I was chatting with one earlier today who didn't seem to understand how time zones work.

OK, this I have to hear.

IT'S 2 AM HERE BUT IT'S 7 WHERE YOU AT, IT'S MOTHAFUCKIN MAGIC

I should have saved it... that's essentially how it went.  "WHOA, it's 9 where you are??? WHOA... it's like, 11 here!"

There is only one time, and that is Tucson's time.  It is currently 8:16 AM.  If your area has a different time, then your area is all fucked up.  In this one thing, the Juggalos are correct.

[Triple Zero]

But we don't actually really know how magnetism works, right? Or electromagnetic fields. I mean we got a bunch of formulas that predict the phenomena to such high degrees of accuracy that we can build absolutely amazing shit, but--well maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong here:

At the Young Researchers centre there's a section that deals with electronics (we got electronics, computers, Lego Mindstorms, wood, metalworks, paper/fabric/crafts, clay/pottery and even oldskool chemical photography). Kids get a bit of wood, tape a paper printed/photocopy design to it, push tacks into the corners and solder resistors and capacitors and diodes and such at the appropriate places, in order to make a radio or a flashing LED thingy, alarms, sensor/detectors. Even speakers or amplifiers, provided they can salvage the more expensive parts from elsewhere. I just do the computers. I then realized that while I completed highschool Physics quite successfully, I forgot most about electronics and electricity except V=IR. So I'm planning to read up on that (besides I could use an electronic audio amplifier to power my speakers), but I'm getting the idea (and I could be wrong cause I haven't read thoroughly yet) that when dealing with electrical circuits, you get all these metaphors like "it's kind of like water in a tube and voltage is pressure and ampere is speed/flux" or such, but if you really want to know what's going on, without the metaphor, it turns out that the electrons we were taught about are being all quantum and not really real, or really anywhere in particular, and we don't really know what an electromagnetic field really is? Right? And we just know a bunch of really awesome physics formula that tell us exactly what they do but not what they are?

Or am I wrong in this idea?

The reason why this bugs me is because well, every day I explain stuff about computers and computer systems to all sorts of people with different levels of experience and understanding. This is something I consider myself pretty good at (even though I can be a bit long-winded) for instance during my Master's research I've always been able to explain my mom pretty much exactly what I was doing (my mom's background is sociology/management sorta, not much math, if any). And I use metaphors and abstractions similar to the electronics "water pressure in a tube" example all the time, if I feel like that helps people understand. But in university I got taught about computers and systems spanning the whole range one could wonder about, starting from the semiconductor, logic circuits, all the way up to operating systems, networks and the Internet. And if anyone asks, I can explain it. I may not remember every detail, but I know the idea and can look it up. There are no mysteries.

Just fucking typical of this so called "Reality" that it won't let itself be explained in neat axioms, I suppose.