nuclear physics, n.All

Nuclear physics (n.) gave ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠our ancestors no advantage; the capacity to invent it played no part in evolution, any more than algebra helps anyone reproduce.

Nuclear physics (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠bred in the layman an uncertainty of judgment far exceeding the physicists' own, making plausible what was nonsense yesterday — the Ufo as a physicists' miracle.