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Neil deGrasse Tyson Returns Again

I Think You're Overthinking It

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How Do You Solve Something Out of Thin Air?

Our brain evolved on the searing get eight or wherever it was in Africa, where your biggest problem was food, sex and shelter. Anything that is uncountable doesn't blend well with our brains. Math would be everybody's easiest topic because calculus is all about limits and infinities. It even bends my brain just to think about how a new mathematical principle is developed. Isaac Newton invents this out of thin air, but as a tool to solve a bigger problem. He wanted to know the answer so badly that he had to make the system to figure it out. I got a story. Apparently Isaac Newton was a sleep under a tree,. not so much cable TV can see you

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