I mean what more can they do to make physcis exicting?
Rule 34, of course. It's all physics, dontcha know? :-D
The professor probably has hidden all sort of sexual suggestions in his lectures that MIT doesn't want to be associated with.
Scott Aarasson writes that "Prof. Lewin tells the students that they’re about to lose their “Maxwell’s equations virginity.”" The old professor toyed the line of what can be said in todays world of politcal correctness.
That pitch might just work to get people interested.
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