Ep 133: Things that make you go mmmmmm? Part 1: Many Misconceptions
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Is It Intuitive?
In whatever the nature of reality actually is, it's going to seem really weird to us. It takes a while to develop intuitions about stuff. Physicists eventually find certain things intuitive, but at first they're jarring at first. The new laws of the universe are not going to seem intuitive until they are. They still might seem surprising in retrospect, but only because you remember your old self. Your old self remembers what it was like not to understand the phenomena of dark energy, or the heisenburg uncertainty principle, or the relativity of time.
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