Monday, June 1, 2026

What's Italian for lasagna?

Languages are created so that a relevant set of ideas can be exchanged, and so the Inuit have many words for snow but English has more words for angry. Math is the language of astrophysics. I don’t understand it but I read rough English translations. When I read,“The exact events leading up to the Big Bang are still not fully understood,” I got the giggles, because as I understand it, before the Big Bang there was no such thing as an event. So why a Big Bang? Because without it, there’d be nobody to ask questions pertaining to its occurrence.