261. Jim Al-Khalili on the Joy of Science
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Importance of the Names of Things
I've been thinking about this problem of language, how we use words to describe things which are always going to be delimiting to our cognition about it. So here's my analogy that, you know, when you guys talk about dark matter or dark energy, you don't mean that as an explanation. This is just a thing we're going to call this thing we don't understand. But that's not an answer, right? The words are not the answer. Yes, i i've i meanis the reason why i preferred physics, even at school, to to say, chemistry and biology, was because i wasn't good at remembering stuff. I meant, the great richard fin
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