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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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Special Relativity Is a Critical Feature of Particle Mechanics
Einstein's theory of relativity basically found that the speed of light was actually quite special. In particular, any theory where action like forces acted on each other instantaneously is incompatible with special relativity. One way to say this is that one of the things that is relativistic that observers will disagree upon in special relativity is which two events happen at the same time.
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