>Be me
>second semester doing physics 1
>teacher talks about thermodinamics
>Ask her at the end of the class: Which chemical element is fire composed from?
Her reaction will haunt me for the eternity
>>7911138
...and her reaction was?
Daughter
>>7911138
nothing wrong with that question imo
>>7911138
Carbon
>>7911142
I hope this answer your question
She quit 1 year sfter that
That's very close to a question I asked in physics 1. When we were learning heat transfer, and we were told that water had a high specific heat, I asked if that had anything to do with how well it puts out fire.
>>7911138
Eh, we all ask retarded shit sometimes. It happens when you ask a question before thinking about it.
>>7911154
Well i'm pretty sure i hear stupider questions everyday
>>7911154
Idiot. That's a smart question.
Thank you based /sci/ , what a great thread
>>7911138
Literally high school chemistry. Any hydrocarbon you burn will react with O2 to create CO2 and H2O
>>7911138
My understanding of fire is that you're visualizing carbon's electrons undergoing some sort of oxidation reduction reaction with oxygen.
Please, don't ever be embarrassed by any question you ask.
Feynman on asking questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
There is a great passage from him about how he would ask "stupid" questions in classes; he felt that no questions were stupid if they helped you to understand what you were learning. But I couldn't find a video.
You are not at fault, OP. Your professor, who instead of recognizing that you had a legitimate question but that you couldn't yet phrase it due to your lack of knowledge on the subject, punished you by being bewildered.
>professor talks about how he and other professors laugh about stupid questions students make after class ends
I'll never open my mouth again
>have tutorials with a pretty distinguished theoretical physics professor for a year
>year later see him drunk at a department function
>he brings up this one question i asked about wavefunctions and laughs at me with the other profs
fuck /sci/ make it stop
>>7913411
>>professor talks about how he and other professors laugh about stupid questions students make after class ends
I'd laugh at other professors for not getting their message across to the students to make them ask those questions too. How embarrassing.
>>7911138
That's not retarded anon. That's a brilliant question to ask and I'm guessing that you stumped the teacher!
