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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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Special relativity is basically a set of symmetries that flat spacetime has. So imagine we're living on 2D worlds with flat landers and then some kids in 3D like math class who's messing around with our worlds. They can move the grid paper up relative to the table or down or they could rotate it and that's not going to change what we observe. The laws of physics are unchanged. Would anyone notice if the grid, God shifted one meter east? Well, no because there are other kinds of symmetry about translation.
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