Xavier Le Pichon — The Fragility at the Heart of Humanity
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Field of Plattatonics Um
When i was a student, the earth was considered a a place where everything was static. You know, things were moving up and down, but never laterally. And we discovered that was completely wrong. When i made the first model of the moving plates, you know, i spent three months working alone. I was 29 at the time, and nobody wanted to work with me. They thought that was a crazy idea. It's very interesting too, that in your field, well, you helped create the field of plattatonics um, and it really a field in which which experienced revolutionary leaps forward in his lifetime.
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