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5699188 No.5699188 [Reply] [Original]

>2013
>Family try to talk science with you
>Ask about dark matter dark energy and other things we know very little about.
>Ask why dark matter/energy exists..
Do you ever get the feeling it's nice people are interested but you can't answer their questions and that you're a let down?
I also tried to tell them that the why something exists and does what it does question isn't really a great question because it presupposes an inherent meaning but they didn't accept that.

Anyone got similar family experiences where they try to sound interested in your studies?

>> No.5699249
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5699249

>>5699188
Try to answer people's questions as best you can and if you can't, never be afraid to say "I don't know."

>> No.5699258

>>5699188
>why something exists and does what it does question isn't really a great question because it presupposes an inherent meaning but they didn't accept that.
This is probably one of the hardest concepts in the world to get across to someone who doesn't understand it.

>> No.5699270

>>5699188
what do you mean by "inherent meaning?" It feels like you missed a subject in there...

>> No.5699279

Yes, I volunteer at a space museum. Most of the people who come in gloss over the exhibits. But about 5% are actually interested and ask questions, that I don't know, I bullshit through it and give some semblance of a nice conclusion but I feel guilty about it.

>> No.5699281

>>5699270
Inherent meaning I take to mean, that it had to be that way to serve a purpose or that it had, that the universe had some specific end goal in mind.