Charan Ranganath: evaluation

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…Yeah, it’s an incredible mystery, all of it. It’s funny you said dark energy, because the same in astrophysics. You look out there, you look at dark matter and dark energy, which is this loose term assigned to a thing we don’t understand, which helps make the equations work in terms of gravity and the expansion of the universe. In the same way, it seems like there’s that kind of thing in the human mind that we’re striving to understand. Yeah. Yeah. It’s funny that you mentioned that. So one of the reasons I wrote the book Amongst Many is that I really felt like people needed to hear from scientists. And COVID was just a great example of this, because people weren’t hearing from scientists. One of the things I think that people didn’t get was the uncertainty of science and how much we don’t know. And I think every scientist lives in this world of uncertainty, and when I was writing the book, I just became aware of all of these things we don’t know. And so, I think of physics a lot. I think of this idea of overwhelming majority of the stuff that’s in our universe cannot be directly measured. I used to think, I hate physics. Physicists get the Nobel Prize for doing whatever stupid thing. It’s like there’s 10 physicists out there. I’m just kidding. Just strong words.…

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