Don Lincoln: uncertainty

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…Just to take a small tangent, how weird is it in the full ranking of weirdness that is physics, how weird is it that there’s that speed limit of the speed of light? Well, I have to tell you, when I first encountered this, it’s pretty freaking weird. It, like, pegs the weird meter. But as you become more familiar with it, as you become more, more comfortable with the idea, the thing to remember is the speed of light; it’s the speed of light through spacetime. Once you embrace that, that makes a whole ton of sense. It all of a sudden makes everything fall much more into place. I think that there is an ultimate speed isn’t that shocking. It just simply says that it’s a property of space in the same way that there is, you know, space can transmit a certain strength electric field. It can support certain things. Whatever space is, and we don’t know what space is, but whatever it is, it has the capability of transmitting these things at that one speed through space or time, and everything else comes from our insisting that we keep space and time different. That’s, that’s how I view it, and at least for me, once I accepted that, it all became very comfortable. So the nature of my question actually here- … that will apply over and over is trying to empathize, trying to put ourselves in the shoes of the people before space and time are unified- … into spacetime and really experience and think through how difficult of a leap is that.…

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