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Name a subject that, for the life of you, you cannot competently understand

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For me, without a doubt, it is electromagnetics. I don't like vector calculus and I don't like the fifteen million equations that say the same thing. I had a hard time with it in my physics 2 class, where it played a significant part - and now that I'm in a whole class designed for e/m for EE majors only I'm getting my ass kicked beyond recogniition....
 
I can't really think of anything specific. Generally if I "can't" understand it, it's usually just that I don't like it and thus I don't really try.
 
Mathematics.

Like I care about:

which way a parabola opens up?
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the exact time at which Train A left the station and will cross with Train B if they're doing certain speeds?
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square roots?
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WGAF, I certainly don't.

Oh, and liars.

 
Physics in general and the theory of singularity in particular. I was listening to a physicist on NPR who is supposed to be brilliant and able to put things in terms that underlings can comprehend. He said that (pre big bang) singularity states that every atom of material in the entire universe was comprised of a speck smaller than the period at the end of a sentence. Now comes the even more difficult to comprehend statement. He said that it was not like there was a universe of space out there and there was this speck of super dense matter floating in it. There was only the speck, no space around it. Lost me.
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