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#471 - Jim Al-Khalili - Physics Is Far Stranger Than You Think

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The Precautionary Principle

In the joy of science, i talk about how science can a scientist never be certain that something is right. There are degrees ofof of confidence that our ideas and notions are right. And you get to the point where you say, there's certain things that are, you know, we're very, very sure about it. Me a hundred % certain, but never quite. So let's hope we're wrong, but just in case we do something about it,. Its inevitable that people will have come in hard with something as unknown in terms of what it could do to to humanity as the pandemic in the early days. What's the story about faster than light nutrinos? Right

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