5. Why don't relativity and particle physics make sense to the average person? A. The average person does not have honed senses.
B. The average person does not believe in parapsychology.
C. The average person has not explored these ideas with technology.
D. The average person lacks the discipline to understand these ideas.
Explanation/evidence
Coming To Our Senses by Neil deGrasse Tyson

What does the term fiend not mean as it is used in the passage? a) beast b) brute c) fanatic d) savage

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Jamal english, mandarin and a bit of arabic. a. speaks b. speak c. speaking d. is speaking