> a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.
> What can you say?
> "It is a tool that does suck up dust to make what you walk on in a home tidy."
This essay is fantastic at demonstrating that putting a word length limit actually makes explaining things more complicated. I got lost at around chapter 5 because the author couldn't use words like "gravity" and "acceleration" and I got confused by which one is "new pull" and which one is "old pull". It's too bad, as it was interesting up to that point.
This is kinda confusing at it's more for people who already know the meaning.
Take the bus exemple, it's so short that it skip explaining why someone on a moving bus will see different timing for the asteroid landing. You can decipher it if you know it, you'll not gonna learn from the story line.
https://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-do-grad-students-in-m...
> a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.
> What can you say?
> "It is a tool that does suck up dust to make what you walk on in a home tidy."