ABSTRACT
I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question-such as, What do you mean by mass? or acceleration, which is the scienti‚c equivalent of saying, Can you read ?—not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language. So the great edi‚ce of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their neolithic ancestors would have had.
