Guessing the Teacher's Password. Followup to: Fake Explanations When I was young, I read popular physics books such as Richard Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.
I knew that light was waves, sound was waves, matter was waves. I took pride in my scientific literacy, when I was nine years old. When I was older, and I began to read the Feynman Lectures on Physics, I ran across a gem called "the wave equation". Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership (9781576750315): Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers, Peter M Senge: Books. Jonathan Drori on what we think we know.