I HAVE been fairly obsessed with space-time this year. Thankfully, I’m a theoretical physicist and, in precept, this is my day job. But the extra time I’ve spent returning to my roots with it, the stranger the entire thing has began to look to me. As I wrote in an earlier column, it’s truly fairly laborious to elucidate this unusual merger of what are ostensibly acquainted, however truly extremely distinct, ideas.
In your on a regular basis life, you typically expertise area and time as separate phenomena. Then alongside comes the physicist with some thought experiments about clocks, trains and…