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but then, intuition is proving to be a poor back seat driver in modern physics.


Might this not be because intuition is based on very restricted field of vision? If this is so, should we not strive to expand that field of vision, perhaps by looking at things that don't fit comfortably within our familiar 4 dimensions?

My math is a long way away from a point where I could even think of being critical of mathematical physics, but I still think we have to take care not to assume that mathematical reality = actual reality, whatever that might be.

There never was nothing.