r/BeAmazed Nov 27 '24

Science If you travel close to the light

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u/IronRakkasan11 Nov 27 '24

Shits too big for my brain to wrap around…even while fascinating

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u/Secure-Childhood-567 Nov 27 '24

Sometimes I wonder if it's an easy concept to get but our brains were purposefully built not to

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u/Business-Emu-6923 Nov 28 '24

On the smallest scale the universe is built on tiny particles and quantum physics.

On the grandest scales relativistic effects show themselves.

We evolved a brain so that an upright ape could navigate the savannah and remember when the fruit trees were ripe.

Classical mechanics is fairly easy to understand as we work ok with the middle ground. Not so much at the extremes.