089 - Connections - James Burke
You Are Not So Smart
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Irreducible Relativity
When we discover that it is possible to see tiny objects, we are able to invent at microscope. This guy in Holland apparently goes up to the prince and says, I've got something that you can use to see what the guys on the other side are doing. And they're going to be the ones at where they don't know that you know they are because you've seen them from a distance. But everything we do, in that sense, has a ripple effect. One of the things that mounted on the moon tells you is that Aristotle is wrong. Everything is wrong. So thinking connectively will help us wrangle the anxieties that come from finding our predictions as what we thought they
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