Modern Physics Education vs Understanding

The fundamentals of modern physics as compared to classical Newtonian physics are (i) special and general theory of relativity and (ii) quantum mechanics.

A basic goal of higher education is understanding, as something beyond mere parroting. While classical physics through a long tradition has been made understandable to students with the help of teachers who understand the subject, education in modern physics has to struggle with the fact that teachers do not understand what they are supposed to teach, as expressed by the famous physicist Richard Feynman: 

• Nobody understands quantum mechanics.

And by Einstein:

• Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

Higher education in modern physics thus faces a situation where the teacher is not able to give the student the impression of understanding the subject, which will effectively put the same limit also to students: If the teacher cannot understand, how can students? 

To make education in modern physics meaningful thus requires a reformation into science understandable to both students and teachers. This is the mission of Many-Minds Relativity and Real Quantum Mechanics.