Cosmic Queries – Back to School Edition
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What's the Big Toe Thinking?
We have two coordinates that define us, where we are in space and where we're in time. Time does not tick for light. So when they tell you what time it is, we have to pre-correct it with an Einsteinian equation so that the time you get on Earth's surface matches what everybody else is using. It's amazing. And Einstein didn't even get the Nobel Prize for that. He got it from much lesser work. Had they totally done his Nobel Prize some justice, he would have had like eight Nobel Prizes.
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