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sir pball

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Sun Jun 14, 2026, 11:11 PM Sunday

One of the most brilliant minds in history spoke like a working-class Queens native. [View all]

Because he WAS a working-class Queens boy. He grew up in the Rockaways, cutting vegetables at a restaurant for his high school job.

He won the Nobel Prize for combining quantum mechanics with special relativity, which is one of the most important advances in the history of physics. Ever. Literally on the same level as Newton.

He also managed to reduce pages of complex math into literal "squiggly drawings" that have turned out to be one of the most revolutionary languages in physics.

And to boot, he was probably the best "explainer" in all of history. He had a very simple rule: "If you cannot explain a complex idea in plain, simple language that a 12-year-old can understand, you do not truly understand it yourself."

So with all that said…here he is explaining a lot of things, in very simple terms.

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