>At one time I was in a physics program at university until I discovered that I couldn't understand physics. I changed to computer science ;-). My experience, though, was that most people I talked to had only a cursory understanding of actual physics. What they really understood was the math.

The science fiction author, Jerry Pournelle, who has a measured IQ of 180, once complained to Richard Feynman, "I don't understand quantum mechanics." Feynman replied, "That's okay, Jerry; neither do I."