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@mcc Yes, I love this.

This is the thing I sometimes think is missing from a lot of science education--- We can get so hung up on having students memorize explanations for things that we can forget that the whole point of the explanations is that there are real phenomenon that make no intuitive sense whatsoever and the explanations are the best we can do with unifying all these otherwise disparate, random, mad world behaviors into something approaching a human-shaped story.

Time dilation sounds like nonsense idea a person made up to troll you until you find out the history of people conducting experiments to figure out the speed of light and getting baffled by the observation that the damn thing doesn't change!