Tag: Models of reality
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Your GPS Is Lying to You (But Physics Isn’t)
You trust your navigation app more than most people in your life. It says “11 minutes”, so you believe “11 minutes”. Then reality, traffic and one mysterious closed street transform that into 27 minutes and a minor existential crisis. The app was not trying to hurt you. It was simply built on a model that…
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The Universe Does Not Care About Your Intuition (And That’s a Relief)
Your intuition is a lovely thing. It helps you find coffee, cross the street and detect when a meeting is about to turn into a crime scene. But as a tool for understanding the universe, intuition is… let us say, politely, “optimistic”. Physics spends a lot of time gently informing us that the world is…