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Could spacetime be a fluid?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Caveats of Quantum Mechanics

I feel like quantum mechanics is still basically stuck in the same view of space as Newton was kind of right. Like before general relativity and Einstein, we just thought space was this big emptiness. It's sort of still stuck in that Newtonian or classical physics view of space. I think the broad strokes of that are definitely true. There's a couple of interesting and important caveats. One is that we have succeeded in making quantum mechanics act relativistically in some cases, like behaving with the rules of relativity. But you're right fundamentally, we're still just talking about things happening in the backdrop of space.

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