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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-08-09 under

"If there's one thing Ph.D. has taught me, it's when to label something 'obvious'. If it requires less than an hour of thought, it's 'obvious'." -- Breno, Ph.D. candidate in general relativity (and violinist, not that that's relevant) as quoted by [livejournal.com profile] silmaril

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Well, that explains this old story...

posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 01:41pm on 2006-08-09
There's a famous story about one of the great Physicists (can't recall which one right now) teaching lecture. Half-way through, blackboards full of equations, a grad student tentatively raised his hand and asked, "How did you get from equation 57 to 58?"

The professor said "Oh, it's obvious," and turned back to his work. Then he stopped for a minute, looked back at the board, and started writing equations, deriving a path from 57 to 58. The students struggled to keep up as he manipulated the math.

Half an hour later, the professor finally turned around again. "Yes, obvious," and resumed the lecture.
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