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  • While I do enjoy Qi (And TIL that Bill Baley is good at running backwards… I hadn’t seen that episode), I take some of their facts with a grain of salt, as it’s primarily an entertainment show. They do tend to oversimplify and miss some nuance from time to time.

    Just as an example, one such case was in regards to flight theory, where the correct answer to “how do planes fly” was “nobody knows”. While there isn’t a grand unifying theory that describes flight theory in full, we do have a lot of individual concept that describe 99.9% of how flight works. It’s like saying “nobody knows” in regards to why the earth orbits the sun on the basis that we don’t have a unifying theory between quantum field theory and gravity.

    I’m not disparaging Qi, though. It’s still a fantastic show, but it’s meant to be entertaining rather than complete.

    EDIT: Yes, “Qi”, not “Windows”. Ducking autocorrect.