But each one of those phases, even the Cartesian phase of a kind of orderly mathematical universe in about the 1700s, and 1600s, that was a very comforting thing to many people thinking – and it didn’t conflict with the religion of Christianity, say, where God had made everything and you revolved around the sun, and everything was smooth and orderly, and you felt safe – it would always be like this, never knowing that you didn’t go in a perfect circle around the sun, and that you actually go towards it and away from it and so on, and it’s never quite the same exact orbit as last year, and we wobble too, and things like that. That tends to make you scared… oh that’s scary.
Lakini kila moja ya hizo muda, ata muda wa (Cartesian) ya ulioonozwa na sheria za hesabu hapo kwa mamiaka ya 1700 na 1600, hiyo ilikuwa kitu ya faraja sana watu wengi kufikiria – na haikukosana na dini ya ukristo, sema, mungu alitengeneza kila kitu na ulizunguka kwa jua, na kila kitu ilikuwa ya mpangilio na ulihisi salama – ingekuwa hivi kila saa, bila kujua hauzunguki kwa kamili kwa jua na kwa kweli unaenda kwa jua alafu unarudi nyuma na kuendelea, na hatuzunguki kwa njia sawa kabisa kama miaka iliyopita na tunatingika pia na vitu kama hivyo. Hiy inakufanya uogope... oh hiyo inaogopesha.