Special relativity is beyond weird. Among its many statements are that moving clocks run slow and that moving rulers shrink. But how are we supposed to make sense of this?
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To explain radio, among other natural phenomena, physicists have imagined a stretchy blanket of ions encasing the Earth. This is the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer, named after…
And how naive to have imagined that the series ended at this point, in only three dimensions! − 2001, A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke The German philosopher-scientist Gottfried Leibniz dreamed of a universal language and a method of calculation to go with it, so that, if disputes arose on any subject, a disputant…