On: Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (20...

[naringas]

> So basically ~70 years wasted.

to call those years wasted implies that we shouldn't have had to wait for them. it suggests that we should look for a way to bypass them.

[ianai → naringas]

I’d rephrase it as: we would probably do ourselves good by coming up with better mathematical intuition and tools of understanding math.

[gumby → naringas]

They were wasted if people toiled fruitlessly on the problem. Not necessarily wasted if they were making progress on other problems.