Hah! Most laymen don't understand radios, either.
I remember buying a radio kit to build it yourself. The main idea is that the antenna picks up the signal and it oscillated between the capacitor and the coil. This magnifies the signal which is transferred to the speaker and we get sound.
I educated myself watching a Tesla documentary last night, it was electrifying.
And I was reading about Newton, I thought it had some weight.
But Carnot's was hot stuff..
I saw the reflection of my eye in the beer mug............Einstein.
The simplest example would be pi = circumference/diameter but dimensionally it is length/length so it is a pure number as the lengths cancel out. It was originally obtained empirically but it can be determined by calculus thus you have people in the Guiness' (?) Book of records who can cite innumerable number of digits after the decimal point.
My cousin's husband once described at some length how a symphony showed up on a vinyl album. It's still magical to me.
I'm afraid I just don't "get" even the simplified explanations of math/equations here.
I DID, however, recently understand Something (yay!) my husband said about repairing cars.
Apparently a "noise" in a car (truck) is very, very difficult to diagnose and repair. Mechanics use stethoscopes to try and locate the source of auto sounds. Even so, they often fail.
Even if a sound is very loud when a car is running, it may be really difficult to determine what it Causing that sound.
In his explanation, hubby used an apt analogy: It's like, he said, an old Victrola.
The Very Loud sound comes from the cone-shaped thing that magnifies the sound.
The "Actual" sound comes from the itty-bitty needle that is going around the record.
I got it!
I wonder if there are any deaf or semi deaf auto mechanics...
