The reason we believe in relativity today is not because we had a great transition in our beliefs about what should be so. We believe in relativity because we have no choice. It's true — measured to be true.

— Robert B. Laughlin, What's Fundamental in the Cosmos? (2019)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jya_lmQuvw&t=254s

From a 2019 Closer to Truth video, at 4:14.

Topics: physics