Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

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  1. Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

  2. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

  3. Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

  4. ...quantum mechanics–the physics of our world–requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

  5. According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

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