#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

8466.951 - 8493.882 Sean Carroll

The poetic part means that you shouldn't be too, I want to say, fundamentalist about what the natural world is. As we went from Newtonian spacetime to Einsteinian spacetime, Something is maintained there. There is a different story that we can tell about the world. And that story in the Newtonian regime, if you want to fly a rocket to the moon, you don't use general relativity.