You Are Not Where You Think You Are

Start your Shopify free trial today: http://shopify.com/Kurzgesagt Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-jiggle-of-existence Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of that? While this may feel like a daft question, it turns out that the concept of an absolute position is something humans made up. In a nutshell

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look around you where are you where is this place you're occupying somewhere in a room maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions but where is all of that while this may feel like a daft question it turns out that the concept of an absolute position is something humans made up in a nutshell the universe is a big bag of space that has things in it if someone removed all these things the stars and planets and black holes and dust there would just be empty space left in empty space the concept of having a position loses all meaning empty space is uniform the same everywhere the space we occupy is not like a stage under our feet we can't mark specific points or staple something to space-time as an anchor without things there is no position we are really ever only at a position in relation to something else which also means that things we take for granted like up and down are actually relative to okay let's fill the uni