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inquiring minds. Do you ever wonder why it is the physicists that decide that they can just

explain everything? I feel like you get that license somewhere after you get your doctorate in theoretical physics.

Somewhere when they hand you that degree, yeah.

And it's rare that physics makes me cry except in a bad way, right?

You know, I didn't quite get the right answer on that big final exam or something like that.

But I don't have those nightmares anymore.

Physics in this week's show made you cry?

This book made me cry.

What book?

Yeah.

So it's Sean Carroll's newest book.

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