{"id":4739,"date":"2010-03-01T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2010-03-01T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T08:00:22","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4739","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feynman discusses the &#8220;why&#8221; question, and why he can&#8217;t give a satisfactory explanation of magnetic attraction\/repulsion.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wMFPe-DwULM?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wMFPe-DwULM?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you explain a &#8220;why,&#8221; you have to be in some framework that you allow something to be true.  Otherwise you are perpetually asking, &#8220;Why?&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve pointed out before that science doesn&#8217;t really address the question of &#8220;why,&#8221; and this is the reason.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I really can&#8217;t do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else that you&#8217;re more familiar with, because I don&#8217;t understand it in terms of anything else you&#8217;re more familiar with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, you have to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4669\">explain to the level of your audience<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feynman discusses the &#8220;why&#8221; question, and why he can&#8217;t give a satisfactory explanation of magnetic attraction\/repulsion. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video When you explain a &#8220;why,&#8221; you have to be in some framework &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}