@PriceRip

We are completely unable to explain why the calculations work. We know they work, but we do not understand why these calculations work. Nobody understands Quantum Mechanics ... Nobody.

You do realize that this three sentence blurb will be how you are remembered 1000 years from today, do you not?

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          99.9998% of humanity never has had and never will have anything else, as modern physics requires mathematical mastery that only a tiny minority of us will ever possess.

          ... because an understanding of why modern physics is needed does not require mathematical mastery. My job is to reduce the explanation of (why modern physics is required and how classical thinking is not sufficient to the task) to the freshman level. This I can do. What I cannot do is to reduce the process of doing the details of modern physics to the freshman level because no one understands why any of that actually works.

          In other words, we can explain why we need to do it, but we don't know why it works.

          Let me say it another way: Feynman, and others, worked out the mathematics that provides very precise calculational results. Experimental results are consistent with the calculational results. The experimental results do not constrain the calculational results. So, we know how to calculate values with greater precision than we can actually measure experimentally.

          We are completely unable to explain why the calculations work. We know they work, but we do not understand why these calculations work. Nobody understands Quantum Mechanics ... Nobody.

          But we understand that it does work. Well we understand this for electro-magnetic, weak, and strong interactions. The jury is still out with respect to gravitational (including dark matter and dark energy) interactions.

          This is understandable at the freshman level. The only barrier is finding someone you trust to teach you the basics. No advanced degree needed.

@PriceRip

... because an understanding of why modern physics is needed does not require mathematical mastery. My job is to reduce the explanation of (why modern physics is required and how classical thinking is not sufficient to the task) to the freshman level. This I can do. What I cannot do is to reduce the process of doing the details of modern physics to the freshman level because no one understands why any of that actually works.

I understand why it is that this "freshman level" understanding of modern physics is necessary to be an educated person in these times where modern physics has the impact on our daily lives that it does. I do not dispute that and never have.

But I do dispute that this understanding is necessary to the task of obtaining full acceptance and genuinely humane treatment by society of its gender-nonconforming members. Why? Because humanity already possessed the tools to do just that centuries before the days of Aristotle, much less Leonardo da Vinci, to say nothing of the times of Newton, Leibniz, Einstein and their various successors. My evidence, of course, is that various human societies accomplished the task in the past ages of which I speak. Frankly, as human civilizations go, we moderns score rather poorly in this area while there are ancient and even primitive cultures who were doing considerably better than us. (And with less pain, strife, and effort, I might add!)

This isn't a STEM problem in any way, shape or form. It's a humanities problem. And it lies solely in the realm of the humanities, in adjustments to our social culture, that the solutions must needs be found. After all, it is in these same realms that the problem first arose, and still lives, moves, and has its being. Prejudice against the gender nonconformists is learned behavior, not inherent to our nature like physics and chemistry are. Nor is it rational behavior in any way, but a cultured, learned emotional reaction with no rational cause.

The scientfically determinable chaos of the subatomic particles is clockwork order by comparison; and I respectfully submit that likening it to this cultural malaise created by humans is an insult to honest subatomic particles!

#4.1

          99.9998% of humanity never has had and never will have anything else, as modern physics requires mathematical mastery that only a tiny minority of us will ever possess.

          ... because an understanding of why modern physics is needed does not require mathematical mastery. My job is to reduce the explanation of (why modern physics is required and how classical thinking is not sufficient to the task) to the freshman level. This I can do. What I cannot do is to reduce the process of doing the details of modern physics to the freshman level because no one understands why any of that actually works.

          In other words, we can explain why we need to do it, but we don't know why it works.

          Let me say it another way: Feynman, and others, worked out the mathematics that provides very precise calculational results. Experimental results are consistent with the calculational results. The experimental results do not constrain the calculational results. So, we know how to calculate values with greater precision than we can actually measure experimentally.

          We are completely unable to explain why the calculations work. We know they work, but we do not understand why these calculations work. Nobody understands Quantum Mechanics ... Nobody.

          But we understand that it does work. Well we understand this for electro-magnetic, weak, and strong interactions. The jury is still out with respect to gravitational (including dark matter and dark energy) interactions.

          This is understandable at the freshman level. The only barrier is finding someone you trust to teach you the basics. No advanced degree needed.