Wielding laypeople's terms and a sense of humor, Nobel Prize winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones? Can the fundamental law, the so-called "theory of everything," really explain everything? His answers will surprise you.
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Let's get one thing out of the way right now: The question of whether or not a new geologic epoch has "really started" is precisely as stupid as the question of whether or not Pluto is "really" a planet.
Here's something I've been meaning to post for a while that somehow got buried in my list of cool, weird, or interesting links.
Gell-Mann delivers an eloquent but devastating defenestration of mysticism, using only Powerpoint and his brain.