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> he does not have an answer Well, yeah. That's the whole point.
by lisper 2y ago
> he does not have an answer
Well, yeah. That's the whole point.
- alok-g 2y agoThe additional important point, of course, is that there are many more 'Why' questions to be asked (often more interesting, and more important than corner cases like human-scale magnetism) that do not get asked just because of familiarity. Familiarity however is not understanding, and it is the same as simplicity.
- aaa_aaa 2y agoHe could simply say so.
- hydrogen7800 2y agoHe does repeatedly. And continues to explain why there is no satisfying answer, because we normally stop asking "why" once we reach a level of familiarity. That level of familiarity to the layperson is different between electromagnetism and slippery ice.
- datavirtue 2y agoI see what you did there.