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Esotic quantities and Visualization [closed]

I alwasy challenged my self to visualize something that has an esotic misure in other words, a physical quantity that can't be represented as a natural number. When we talk about negative, and ...
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Which areas of physics are most demanding of good intuition or physical insight? [closed]

I'm a beginning graduate student, and I have 2 years before I have to pick a specialization. I would like to know which areas of physics call for the most intuition or physical insight. If this sounds ...
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“Seeing” the solution

I often hear people say that so-and-so [some famous physicist] can see the solution without calculation. What exactly does this mean? Is it an intuition? But how does one have intuition when it comes ...