2024-12-02
53 分钟You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
I'm Grant Barrett.
And I'm Martha Barnett.
Grant, I've been reading a book in a field I know almost nothing about,
and there's a whole lot in this book about guts and toes.
You mean guts like my innards and toes like the little things at the end of my feet?
Actually, no. Spelled the same way, G-U-T and T-O-E bought their acronyms.
Oh. Acronyms, T-O-E, top of Everest.
I don't know.
G-U-T, get under table.
It's earthquake advice, right?
I don't know, what are they, what is it?
What are you learning about, Martha?
It's always something new.
Um, this is a book about cosmology.
Gut is a physicist's term for grand unified theory and Toe,
T-O-E, you probably remember Stephen Hawking talking about this.
Yeah, I read his book when I was a kid.
Okay, yeah, the theory of everything.
Right, that makes perfect sense.