Settled by language

On either trying to understand or explain quantum mechanics, our vocabulary becomes insuficient.
Our communication has evolved long ago from our scope of physical experience. And until not long ago, the commonest human experience did not go beyond concepts such as feeding, breeding, fighting, gods and death.
Man knew how to name a tree, a hare, and perhaps a star. Which do you think was the most abstract concept held during the Roman Empire, or the Middle Ages?
Gods? Death? Justice?

If there isn't a language to describe something atypical, that something cannot be solved. Not even by intuition.

And language is not just about the verbum. Language is the way our mind has been set to see the world. When worlds are missing, then math can take the lead. But then even math can go too fast before any other language can follow through.

What language has everyone of us been taugh to see the world?

On describing what's going on

The introduction: wondering why some people ask questions that others cannot.
It all begun (i think) during an unusual winter night at the seacoast. A painter, a violinist and a biochemist watching a TV physisist explaining why gold wwas not created in this world, but rather came from somewhere else. The question was posed by Mr. Mendelev.
How many people the world had to have -and how old it had to be-, in order to hear such a question?
And so on.

What questions haven't we asked yet?

It is wonderous to listen to questions. Some we might have intuited, some others hit us by surprise. They might come from worldly observations that we have not even noticed.
A thought for tonight: all those questions that have startled us, all those observations that we have let pass by, all those answers, elaborated and delicious, that address the unquestioned and unobserved.

The world is big for those who wonder.