physicist talks about all the bullshit in popular and professional physics. i say this shit on CE and get told i dont know what the fuck im talking about (in reality i keep up-to-date with every major peer reviewed discovery in physics and I know enough calculus to make sense of it. if you don't know Gauss and curves, for example, you can't really understand how our universe is "flat")
edit: that article/interview is only 4 days old but it's talking about exactly what we're talking about.
i say the biggest problems with the general population's knowledge of physics are:
-not knowing wtf dark matter is -not knowing wtf dark energy is -not knowing the difference between the "dark matter" inside a black hole and the "dark matter" that holds together a galaxy -not really understanding black holes, hawking radiation, event horizons, etc. -believing that literal "singularities" exist (i.e. infinitely-dense points in spacetime. they dont, it's just the math breaks down) -belief in the "big bang" as opposed to cosmic inflation -lack of knowledge of the timescale of the universe (i think most people get that the universe is BIG, they just dont know how old it is or how much longer it will last, easy questions to answer). -random multiverse bullshit -not understanding the nature of the quantum world, even a little, or thinking about how things look different at different scales
just off the top of my head
P-branes.
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