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The Words We Use to Describe the Universe Are Broken
In Eternal Echoes, Dr. Hakeem Alexander exposes language as cosmology’s weakest lens:
- The Abstraction Trap: Why “dark matter” explains nothing (and does Chinese 永恒 capture eternity any better than ∞?).
- Cultural Relativity: How your native tongue shapes cosmic understanding (spoiler: English distorts time).
- Scientific Evolution: When “singularity” meant math, not black holes – why terminology betrays truth.
Featuring Dr. Alexander’s corrected audio and analysis of how metaphor limits discovery. Discover why astrophysicists need poets – and why silence speaks louder than equations.
Listen to “When Words Fail – Language’s Limits in Cosmic Description” on Spreaker.“Language is the cosmos’ funhouse mirror – distorting what it claims to reflect.” 🪞
Deep Dive Additions (Blog):
- Light-Year’s Lie: Why measuring distance misses the experience of space.
- Indigenous Cosmologies: How Navajo language encodes spacetime differently.
- Silence as Tool: Why Wittgenstein’s “whereof one cannot speak” applies to quantum gravity.