164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
The Michael Shermer Show
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There's Nothing That Needs Explaining
Wyd: There's nothing that needs explaining. We're just using these words as a place holder until we figure out what it is, because there's actual measurable effects that we don't have an explanation for. And i distinguish dark matter, dark energy, from the ether. So i've a fair amount of literature on the etherr this hypothesised medium permeatedallof space that permitted light to be transmitted through it. But no meriment ever detectede,. you ge that beautiful photograph of the inter pherometer there? Ye. Rather natural line of thinking, given that light was a wave, sound is a wave. Sound needs a medium. If you had a ringing bell and
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