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People who buy into conspiracy theories that elaborate would probably have no problem just wrapping that up in some other wild hypothesis, like "the plane ride was a simulation!" or "they moved everything around on a giant conveyor belt!"

Homework Statement The first exercise in Susskind and Hrabovsky's The Theoretical Minimum is one that, in the words of Susskind, "is designed to make you think, more than it is designed to test you." The exercise asks: Homework Equations In the prior paragraph, the authors define the notion...

Hi all! My name's Ethan, and I'm trying to teach myself physics - until I can enter into a degree program, of course. I've long been interested in what exactly makes the universe tick, but beyond an introductory high school course, I've only just begun to seriously engage with the material...