To expand on what Micca said,

The "true" language of modern science is mathematics.

Mathematics far beyond what the general public can ever hope to comprehend.

For examle, check out "Wave equation" in the wikipedia. Keep reading until your brain locks up.

What consistently amazes me is that modern scientists are masters of pr.

With some wonderful choices of terminology, e.g., "quark", "singularity", "black hole", "big bang", etc., their talk about this mind boggling abstruse mathematics is endlessly fascinating to the general publc.

They are also really good at benignly misleading the public. For example, they usually "forget" to make it clear that the time they are talking about is an item in a mathematical equation rather than the time we ordinary mortals have to deal with. This leads too all the delicious "paradoxes" that are also endlessly fascinating the to general public.

If this helps them secure funding, so much the better.

Russ (Permanent GUEST and former math major)