Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy used in public science discourse,
JA-K: "How would you describe the challenge of what you are trying to do, seeing right down to the level of atoms?"
PG: "Yeah, it's like looking at moving golf balls on the surface of the moon from the planet earth."
Dame Pratibha Gai, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at York University was being interviewed by Prof. Al-Khalili on an episode ('Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want') of The Life Scientific.
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