Columbia professor strips down to underwear in bizarre lesson to confused students quantum mechanics.

“In order to learn quantum mechanics, you have to strip to your raw, erase all the garbage from your brain, and start over again,’ Prof. Emlyn Hughes said. Against a backdrop of 9/11 and Holocaust images, he remained in a fetal position as two people dressed as ninjas blindfolded stuffed animals.”

The Columbia Spectator describes the scene as students entered the class as follows:

As students filed into the lecture hall, all of the lights were off, except for two spotlights on stage where Hughes was sitting. With Lil Wayne’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot” playing in the background, Hughes stripped down to his underwear, then proceeded to change into a black T-shirt and pants. Afterwards, he sat down on the chair, hugging his knees in a fetal position. Then, as a jumbled video that included footage of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers on 9/11 continued to play on the screen, two figures dressed in black came on stage with long swords. One of them proceeded to chop a stuffed animal in half on a stool.

When Hughes’ presentation was over, he attempted to quell the nervous laughter with an explanation: “In order to learn quantum mechanics, you have to strip to your raw, erase all the garbage from your brain and start over again.”

One student can be heard: “How does this relate to anything?”