Adam Becker

The invariance between those two situations aren't what we think they are.

It turns out that actually the rate that my watch runs at does change between those two situations.

And the distance between my apartment and the movie theater down the street does change.

There are things that don't change, but those things are not.

distances or time they're a combination of space and time space time okay is time the fourth dimension sure yeah in relativity it is okay yeah and now quantum yes theory yeah oh you want me to do the same thing for quantum theory just in a nutshell

Yeah.

So quantum theory says that there is something very, very unusual going on in the world of the very tiny.

And we don't know what that is.

Dark matter, sure, we don't really know what's going on there.

We know it's around, but we don't know what it's made of.

There is a lot of empty space inside of atoms, but that's not really what's going on here either.

That's not why we don't understand this.

What's going on instead is,

It is hard to understand the relationship between the mathematics of quantum physics and the world that we live in.

Because the math works really well.

We can use it to predict and explain all kinds of things.

But it also doesn't really look like the world around us.

And that's fine.

You know, things can be weird.

It's a big world.