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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Brian Greene was a contemporary American theoretical physicist. Brian Randolph Greene is an American physicist known for his research on string theory. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its center for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded in 2008. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it
- Experience — Learning through living, doing, and facing the world