host: dr. neil degrasse tyson did your new book astrophysics for people in a hurry you open by saying the universe is under no obligation to make sense what does that mean?. i think up until the year 1600 when we had no particular tools to investigate the natural world the five senses were the primary means we gave all information about the universe and not even knowing that our five senses had live and said everything you know, the thinking of letting tries to give you but it is not better run at 1500 it would go one direction than the telescope it was a decade within one another now it becomes available to us to transcend our senses to look inside a drop of pond water to see microorganisms doing the backstroke that the sensory system could not have detected with not for the microscope so the welcome to the universe tire living creatures living in a drop of water but today we know that from childhood but that made no sense at all without royal society in london when t