The Right Metaphor for Relativity

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Like relativity, relatively, requires tensor mathematics. It's sort of like a complicated vector mathematics. You can't explain relativity using statistics. It's just the wrong math. So it seems to me you're employing just a different model, or an analogue or metaphor. I had matthew cub on the show here last year with his book on the idea of the brain. And so it's like a history of metaphors used to explain the brain. Okno, we can't get inside thereu. We have to employ some kind of analogue model metaphor to try to explain it. But maybe you're right. Nutwa a, is non it not a metaphor. Not a metaphor. Or

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