Once, on an airplane, I sat next to a talkative scientist. His focus was quantum physics and the study of microparticles, with an emphasis on dark matter and something called “black body radiation.” Thank God it was a short flight.

The good news is that in about half an hour he had explained his area of study so cogently, so clearly, that I wondered why I had wasted so much effort avoiding every newspaper or magazine article about it.

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