The Strangest Moments in the History of Science

The universe is very different out there in space beyond our galaxy beyond our cluster of galaxies and it's also very different at the molecular and atomic and particle scales. Things are actually very different than our everyday experience. And we're tempted when we discover these new weird wrinkles in the universe to explain them in terms of things that we know things we understand. It's a very natural way to try to understand the universe to describe it in terms of the language that you already have. Sometimes though that gets awkward because quantum particles dance around if you're thinking about them as little dots of stuff.