N.Wells
Posts: 1836
Joined: Oct. 2005
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That was unexpectedly fascinating, thank you.
| Quote | these callers have two things in common: they spend an extraordinary amount of time on their theories, and they are frustrated that nobody is interested.
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My clients know so little about current research in physics, they aren’t even aware they’re in a foreign country. They have no clue how far they are from making themselves understood.
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A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particles ‘popping’ in and out of existence. Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors. |
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