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This doesn't help with understanding, but I think it's true:

Our intuitions about physical reality come from evolving as primates on Earth. We're pretty great at intuitively understanding the world at that scale.

But at vastly different scales of size and time, those intuitions just don't apply much. So quantum physics events on nano -meter and -second scale seems completely bizarre, as do cosmological event on giga -lightyear and -year scale.



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