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World's Shortest Physics Lecture?

Two people, one an engineer no less (why are engineers so keen on impersonating physicists lately?), are attempting to deliver a lecture on Relativity and another lecture on Quantum Mechanics lasting only 2 minutes each.

He added: "People sometimes ask for a concise account of some of the exciting concepts of modern physics.

"So we thought it would be a good challenge to try to encapsulate two of the key ideas into two minutes each. You could call it a kind of Very Brief History of Time."


This gimmick is rather silly, and it is a gimmick. It isn't a matter of how quickly one can deliver something. It's a matter of what was understood out of something like this. I can condensed anything in 2 minutes, but what have I communicated other than something utterly superficial and full of holes with no details? No where in here was there any consideration on how effective and ACCURATE the information that was passed to the listener.

Zz.

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