Daniel talks to physicist Roberto Trotta about his new book, The Edge of Sky: All You Need to Know about the All-There-Is." For this endeavor, Roberto distanced himself from other science popularizers by attempting to describe the universe in the 1000 most used words in the English language, which meant "planet," "Earth," and even "universe" was off limits. It's a literary challenge Daniel compares to poetry. http://robertotrotta.com/
Plus...Daniel reflects on why Biblical metaphors are out and physics metaphors are in.
**To hear the music in today's show ("The Newton Boogie" by Ian Hartman; "The Particle Physics Song" by Danuta Orlowska, set to "The Bold Hippopotamus" b Flanders & Swann, recorded at the CERN Control Center by the CERN Choir!) visit http://www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/hartman/newton_boogie.htm and https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2025670475332**
Aired Oct. 19, 2014