Waving Back [Microwave Bytes]

There have always been a few technical terms that make me quietly shudder, sending my brain into the cerebral equivalent of latch-up, my brain internally screaming "Oh no!" This effect can have a variety of causes, but the most common one is that someone is bringing up a subject that I know I ought to know more about than I actually do, and the fear of such exposure does the trick. The only way I manage to unlock the blocked neuron paths is to somehow convince myself that no one else really understands the subject in question either and they are all just bluffing (to use the more polite version of the actual word that comes to mind).