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The Book Club: Carlo Rovelli

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Copernicus and the Einsteinian Revolution

We have an instinctive understanding of time that we still cling to. Why does it take us so long to absorb what I like, Maxa Mander and then Copernicus saw? Oh, because we're all stupid, of course. Our brain is limited. We should imagine that we are perfect rational beings that get clarity with everything we see. But if you think of the Copernico evolution, those moves, those spins and goes around the sun, Copernicus book is six in the century. You have to wait. It's not that Einstein discoveries are more difficult than understanding that in Sidney, people live upside down.

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