Act of spending one's time with very complicated theoretical problems which, when solved, do not serve for anything useful or practical.
J: Did you understand the sense of the problem in theoretical quantum mechanics which we solved in our course today?
P: It was just some brain-wanking. It does not have any practical meaning.
P: It was just some brain-wanking. It does not have any practical meaning.
by xxteapot November 30, 2011